103. Cannonballs in Qiongzhou (Part 2)
Landmines exploded one after another.
Many pirates who landed on the island stepped on the mine buried on the beach, and immediately the flames soared into the sky, and countless pirates were blown to pieces.
Even if these pirates are cruel in nature, they can't help but be a little scared. Cruel to others does not mean that they are not afraid of death.
But it was impossible to turn around even if you had already run here, and it would be impossible to turn around. They would be killed by the small leader of the army. They could only bite the bullet and continue to rush up.
Thousands of small boats, a total of about 5,000 pirates, except for those who were killed by fire bombs in the middle of the journey, the rest of them landed one after another.
This kind of scene is like a group of sea crabs coming to mate on the shore, densely packed with people everywhere, and they can't count them clearly.
The pirate ship that followed also landed at an extremely fast speed and broke down. Countless small boats were put down and headed towards the coast.
The commander of the Yuan army, Toheti, led his army to fight and retreat, and also approached the coast.
After all, there were only a hundred warships in Zhao and Luo. Even if there were fire ships storming the Yuan army's formation, it was not easy to swallow the Yuan army, so they could only hold on.
Murong Chuan's eyes looked at the fires that kept appearing on the coast, his eyes narrowed slightly, and his fierce light flashed. Xiulin Castle was defeated by Zhao Dongting, and he was ruined. Now all he wanted was to destroy the Southern Song Dynasty. He did not regret these pirates.
Zhao Dongting led the Feilong Army to the side of Liu Hongyi.
Liu Hongyi was shocked, "Master, why are you here?"
Zhao Dongting was wearing a tailor-made golden silk armor and said, "I'll let these pirates taste the taste of the dragon cannon."
Liu Hongyi had never seen a grenade launcher before. When he saw the iron lumps carried on the shoulders of the Feilong Army, his eyes lit up, "Is this a new weapon you invented by your prince?"
Zhao Dongting raised his eyebrows and nodded, asking the Feilong soldiers to bring stones, set up grenade launchers, and look at the sea with a telescope.
The Flying Dragon Army is his treasure, so he naturally can't bear to let them charge.
Not far away, there are dozens of boxes of shells neatly placed.
The pirate ship was waiting for about five hundred meters away from them. Zhao Dongting waved his hand suddenly, "Aim!"
At the same time, the pirate's vanguard army had also flowed through the thunder formation, which was only two or three hundred meters away from the Southern Song army formation.
Liu Hongyi shouted to Zhao Dongting almost at the same time, "Bridge!"
The series of crossbows lined up next to the catapult cart fired the crossbow arrows at the same time, and the sound of crossbow arrows whizzed through the air, making an extremely sharp sound.
But in just a short moment, these sounds were completely overwhelmed by the sound of the grenade launcher.
Ten Mars-carrying shells were shot out of the grenade launcher.
This sound made the soldiers beside him neigh and raised their front hooves.
Liu Hongyi trembled slightly, then he was stunned.
Ten balls of fire suddenly exploded on the sea. The flames were not comparable to the sound caused by the fire bombs of the catapult.
After coming to his senses, he hurriedly put his telescope in front of him and looked at the sea. He saw that several pirate ships were blown up in front of him, shaking and sinking into the sea.
This made him swallow.
He is also a well-informed general, but he has never seen such a powerful weapon in the past few years.
Even if those big ships were hit by several fire bombs, they would not be able to remain silent so easily.
Zhao Dongting laughed happily, but shouted: "Let go! Let go! Let go!"
He doesn't feel sorry for these shells.
The flying dragon soldiers who were firing the cannon were excited when they saw such a big noise on the sea surface, their faces were red and their ears were so excited that they were even trembling with their ears.
Lewu, who had to come to watch, covered her ears and her big eyes were also wide open.
She turned her head to look at Zhao Dongting, and felt that Zhao Dongting was not like a human being, and could even invent such a thing.
He is really a great man.
Before he knew it, there was a rippling light in Liwu's eyes.
It is said that heroes cherish beauty, but who says beauty doesn’t admire heroes?
The sound of gunfire continues.
The pirate ships lined up behind the sea waiting to dock were blown up one after another, and countless pirates were blown up to the point of blood. The pirate leader on the ship was also confused.
Where have they seen such a powerful weapon?
However, the front and back were blocked by warships, and they were also rogues, so they could only wait in place to be bombed.
Some pirates who were afraid of death jumped into the sea one after another and were then obscured by huge waves.
The pirates who were on theshore rushed to about a hundred meters in front of the Southern Song army formation with strong crossbows. They had no formation at all, but just rushed around.
Liu Hongyi waved his sword: "Bow!"
The messenger waved the flag.
There was a drum sound again.
"Dong!"
"Dongdong!"
"Dongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdong!"
The Southern Song Dynasty archers pulled the bows all over. Some powerful crossbowmen knelt on the ground with one knee, some sat on the ground with butts, and legs kicked the crossbow body, stretching straight.
This kind of powerful crossbow is much more powerful than ordinary crossbows and bows.
They neatly tilted their bows and crossbows to an angle of about 45 degrees towards the sky. When the drum sounded, the arrows shot into the sky and then covered the sky and fell into the pirate group. In an instant, countless pirates fell into the ground with arrows. They had no armor. Within this distance, the arrows were enough to penetrate their bodies. Some were unlucky, and even dozens of arrows were shot into piercing pigs at the same time.
At the same time, tens of thousands of arrows were shot out!
Such a formation is not comparable to that in the Battle of Benzhou. Even Zhao Dongting was shocked.
Pirates fell to the ground and could never get up again.
Some people were so scared that they turned around and ran away, and then their heads were cut off by the small leader of the military supervisor behind them.
This is the difference between a regular army and a mob.
There may be many trainers among the pirates, but they do not have many arrows, nor do they have large-scale cavalry, nor armor. When they encounter arrow formations, they can only be slaughtered. No matter how powerful they are, they will be difficult to survive such rainy arrows, all by luck.
Some pirate leaders saw that the Song army was so strong here, and ordered their men to lean on the distant shore.
But as soon as they arrived, soldiers of the Southern Song Dynasty rushed out of the forest.
The development of the battle situation was really as Qin Han expected. He asked Zhao and Luo to deploy the 20,000 Qiongzhou Army spread along the coast to play a role at this time.
When a large group of pirates risked their lives to thirty meters in front of the Southern Song army formation, the Southern Song heavy armored cavalry emerged from the formation. They were wrapped in steel armor, and even the war horses were covered with armor, and they made a jingle sound when they acted.
The flag was changed, and the drums sounded. Thousands of heavily armored cavalry raised their spears and whistled out.
They rushed to the pirate group like a swarm of wasps and rushed in, just like harvesting wheat, causing the pirates to fall to the ground in groups.
In this way, the pirates suffered countless losses under the continuous killing of mines, catapults, arrow formations, and cavalry. The beaches were covered with pirate corpses, and the blood soaked the fine yellow sand on the beach red.
The Flying Dragon Army's grenade launchers were as many as ten large ships that sank pirates. With the plan of 200 pirates per ship, more than 2,000 pirates sank the corpses under the sea. The waves on that night were extremely huge, and even with their water nature, it was difficult to swim to the shore.
Pirates are robbing, but when have they experienced such a battle?
They are completely in chaos.
When Toheti saw this scene on the boat, he was helpless. Even if he withdraws his troops, it is impossible for the Song army to break through the back of the ship formation in a short time.
He had never fought such a cowardly battle, and he felt like a turtle crawling into a jar, and could only let the other party lead the nose.
At no cost, he could only order the war drums to pound and let the ships approach the shore of Qiongzhou Island.
Now he only hopes for their cavalry that the Yuan Dynasty claims to be indestructible.
Murong Chuan held the railings of the warship with both hands, and the blue veins on his face had already emerged due to his anger.
When he was slaughtering Suixi County, he only thought that the soldiers of the Southern Song Dynasty were just like this, but he never thought that the pirates under his command would be slaughtered like this here.
In a short period of time, nearly half of his tens of thousands of pirates were probably lost. Moreover, the number of losses continued to increase.
The Southern Song Dynasty had already prepared for war and had enough arrows, and this time there was no more worries.
Liu Hongyi felt happy.
The pirates could not even attack twenty meters ahead of the army in a short period of time.
Toheti finally led his more than 200 warships to dock far away from the main force of the Song army.
There were only a few Qiongzhou troops with hundreds of people in defense there, so naturally they could not stop them, but he could not have expected that his actions were all in the eyes of Zhao Dongting, who was holding a telescope.
Under Liu Hongyi's order, 20,000 soldiers had already spread there. Among them, 5,000 archers, 5,000 cavalrymen, and the rest were infantry.
Zhao Dongting also moved his position with the soldiers of the Feilong Army, followed behind the army, and moved closer to the place where the Yuan army warships docked.
The Yuan army had just put down the boat, and the warships in front had just set up bridge boards, and the soldiers and war horses were getting off the boat. The archers of the Southern Song Dynasty were already firing their crossbows, and the arrow feathers of the sky rushed towards them.
What's even more fatal is naturally the Grenade Bomb of the Flying Dragon Army.
At the edge of the forest hundreds of meters away from the Yuan army's ship formation, ten grenade launchers kept shaking and artillery shells were fired continuously.
Some Yuan army warships were blown up and sank slowly before they could dock.
Chapter completed!