First Minister of Ming Dynasty Chapter 351

Kang Mao was beaten, and no accident, the news reached the Chen Jun camp at Hukou on the south bank.

This makes Chen Youliang very happy. Frankly speaking, if Zhu Yuanzhang's factors are not considered, Chen Youliang's life can be called a hang-up. It was only fifteen years ago that he officially joined Tianwan. In the end, after a few years of fiddling, he relied on the heart of the beast, and the behavior of Feng Xian continued to devour the master, and climbed from a small soldier to the high position of the King of Han.

Who dares not to give a thumbs up and praise a real hero!

However, there is a person who can specifically restrain him. From the earliest competition for Hongdu to today, the two sides each took out hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, stood at the poker table, and made huge bets.

The surnamed Zhu has been pressing him and taking advantage of him everywhere.

Now there is finally someone who is willing to rely on him, and can use Zhu Yuanzhang's methods for him. It doesn't matter if you win or lose, the key is that Zhu Yuanzhang must lose!

The old man Zou Pusheng really saw Chen Youliang through. Compared with the truth, he was more willing to believe in his own wishful thinking. To put it bluntly, he was self-willed.

"Send my will, I will go to war tomorrow, I want to test Zhu Yuanzhang's details!" Chen Youliang ordered decisively, Zhang Bixian agreed immediately and went down to prepare.

The next day, Chen Youliang dispatched troops from the Hukou Camp. Hundreds of huge building boats, like a group of giant beasts, came meandering in the company of many auxiliary ships.

Huge ships, covering the sky and the sun, cover the river surface.

Although I had already climbed up and looked at it and knew a thing or two, it still made people feel terrified when the fleet came towards us.

Zhang Ximeng's palm was already sweating.

He was really frightened. Water warfare was different from land warfare. The big boat bullied the small boat, the more guns bullied the fewer guns, and there was a generational difference in weapons, so there was only one chance of being ravaged.

In land warfare, there are still many cases where the less wins, but when it comes to water, there are very few cases where the weak wins the strong.

Zhang Ximeng is also a little bit puzzled. He has also deployed shipyards and has also produced some ships... But limited by the wood, the progress of Zhu's army is not fast.

Chen Youliang occupies Huguang and can transport wood and aniseed materials from the mountains, but there is also a problem. Can the wood be built immediately after the wood comes out of the mountains?

Obviously not!

Could it be that Chen Youliang has mastered some black technology, or?

Zhang Ximeng and others rounded their eyes and tried to observe these building ships.

Chen Youliang's ship is at least fifteen feet long, more than twenty feet high, and two or three feet wide. The deck alone has three floors.

A high-rise ship can hold a thousand sailors, and a high-rise ship of this size can almost be compared to the treasure ship that Zheng He sailed to the Western Ocean.

Moreover, all the building ships are painted with a bright red color, which is full of oppression.

Although he couldn't see clearly, Zhang Ximeng also knew that on Chen Youliang's ship, there were also firearms, artillery, kerosene and other weapons, as well as strong bows and crossbows.

They have the weapons that the Zhu Family Army has, and there are more of them.

How to fight this battle?

Frankly speaking, if Zhang Ximeng was replaced as the commander in chief, he might avoid the battle until he had a bigger ship and was better prepared, and then he would fight decisively.

But the problem is that the fighter plane is fleeting, where will you be allowed to prepare properly?

So Zhang Ximeng is really fortunate that Zhu Yuanzhang is the one who is in charge, and people like Xu Da and Chang Yuchun carry out the task... As for him, he can watch the battle silently and let these great men take you off.

Zhang Ximeng was thinking that if his subordinates knew that Zhang Xiang, who was like a fairy, was so flustered and helpless, I was afraid that it would shake the hearts of the army.

But it doesn't matter anymore, the big guy's eyes soon fell on the battlefield, and Zhang Ximeng was ignored.

"In this battle, I will lead the army, and you will follow in batches... Be sure to follow my instructions, only forward, not backward!"

Standing on the bow of the boat, Xu Da stood upright, holding a shield, and even took the lead in killing him.

As the first commander in the army, Xu Da actually assumed the responsibility of the head coach. He actually robbed the pioneer. What did this guy think?

If there is a mistake, wouldn't it shake the military's heart!

Zhang Ximeng frowned slightly, but he quickly understood what was going on.

Seeing Zhu Jiajun taking the initiative to attack, Chen Youliang couldn't help but want to laugh at this group of people. Don't you look at how far the warships of the two sides are!

Following Chen Youliang's orders, five giant building ships and dozens of warships fought together.

On the river, the two sides met each other. At the juncture of the battle, Xu Da was on the warship, and the bright red flags were continuously waved. The entire Zhu family's army fleet was ordered to separate quickly. go up.

good!

Seeing this scene, Zhang Ximeng almost slapped Xu Da.

The building ship is huge and inconvenient to operate, and the Zhu family's military ship is small and flexible, just relying on the power to surround the enemy, and use the method of wolves to fight tigers to bite the enemy to death!

As long as you find the right method, it is not difficult to overcome the enemy and win!

But just when Zhang Ximeng felt excited, a lot of stone bullets were thrown from the huge building ship, and they smashed over in a graceful arc.

A stone bullet almost stuck against Xu Da's bow and fell into the river. If he moved further forward, it is estimated that Xu Da would have become a meatloaf.

Zhang Ximeng's heart shrank suddenly, don't just get beaten, fight back quickly, why didn't Xu Da fight back?

However, a scene that disappointed Zhang Ximeng appeared. Xu Da did not seem to see the other party's stone bullets, but only ordered the ship to move forward and approach the enemy with the fastest speed.

Zhang Ximeng looked and looked, and he seemed to understand.

No wonder Chen Youliang is obsessed with building ships. Even though this huge warship has 10,000 shortcomings, one advantage is enough to cover up all the shortcomings.

The building ship is tall and has multiple decks, and weapons can be placed on each floor.

Therefore, the catapults and fire cannons carried by a building ship are the sum of more than a dozen small ships, and because they are condescending, they have a longer range and greater power.

In the face of such a behemoth, the boat has no other choice. Only by approaching the opponent with the momentum of a decisive death, can there be a chance for a battle.

But it's not that easy to approach this big guy full of weapons.

Zhang Ximeng's eyes widened, looking at the battlefield on the river. Suddenly, a wooden pole several feet long fell from a building boat. At one end of the wooden pole, it was a huge hammer.

Shoot the pole!

Zhang Ximeng had seen this thing in Ruxukou, and now he has seen it with his own eyes again, and it is powerful.

I saw a Zhu family's warship being hit head-on.

The two soldiers standing in front were instantly smashed, the wood on the bow broke, a huge loophole, the river poured in, and the ship sank.

After a while, it disappeared, leaving only a few broken wooden boards floating alone.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Ximeng's face was particularly solemn, and he finally understood the reason why Xu Da took the lead.

Although it is said that the building ship is huge and difficult to turn around, as long as the building ship can be approached, there is a way.

But the question is how close?

The other party is obviously a tiger with fangs and claws. He usually walks around when he sees it, but now he has to take the initiative to approach.

Every time you get closer, you have to risk your life, and you can be buried in the river at any time, with no bones left.

Don't say anything close to each other, whoever is willing to die, I won't go anyway!

If it wasn't for the coach taking the lead, why would he let his subordinates sacrifice their lives and move forward desperately?

Of course, war depends on clever calculations and strategies, but in the final analysis, people need to implement it... Take the tactic of using small boats to deal with big ships, Zhang Ximeng can talk about it on paper and deduce countless ways to win.

But when it comes to the battlefield, it is still necessary for the soldiers to face the difficulties, with weak ships, without turning back, and pounce on the enemy... No matter what the outcome of the war is, for many young soldiers, their lives will end at any time.

For the commander-in-chief of the three armies, these people are only a small part of the thousands of soldiers, but for each soldier, life is only once, and once lost, it will never come back.

Zhang Ximeng stared at the battlefield and looked at the Taotao River. He seemed to understand something. For military affairs, no matter how strong the country is or how strong the army is, don't start a war lightly.

Any war must be carefully weighed and taken seriously. To start a war hastily is to play with human life! Even a superpower cannot withstand a few meaningless wars.

Zhang Ximeng really thought a lot when he could only think and couldn't do much.

In the future, these ideas will be transformed into the foreign affairs of the entire country, which will have far-reaching influence.

But at the moment, the protagonists of the battlefield are still Xu Da and a group of soldiers.

Xu Da risked his life to fight to the front of a building ship.

What greeted him was a dense array of crossbows, pouring down toward his warship from the upper, middle and lower decks.

Xu Da could only wave his shield to protect himself, and at the same time gave a firm order to attack the building boat... The nine small boats all died, shooting bows and arrows at the building boat from all directions.

It doesn't matter, there are a few ships that aim at the belly of the building ship with their bows and collide.

Bang bang bang!

The violent collision made the Zhu family's army spin, and some soldiers fell into the river.

But the seemingly huge building ship was also injured.

The wooden hull kept making cracking sounds, and the Chen Jun soldiers above were actually frightened.

Xu Da seized the opportunity, and even under the command, he erected a ladder, hung the deck with iron hooks, and immediately took the lead in rushing up to the ship, and started a hand-to-hand fight with Chen Jun.

"Kill, rush with me, and take this ship!"

The soldiers of the Zhu Family Army were encouraged, they gave up their lives, rushed to the deck, rushed up to meet Chen Jun, and slashed wantonly. The weapons collided, the tendons were broken, and the shrill screams... All kinds of voices were intertwined, and with the help of the waves of the river, they were transmitted far away, including Zhang Ximeng, which could be heard clearly.

The brutality of the war is enough to make anyone feel terrified.

Zhang Ximeng frowned, staring at the big ship that was almost grabbed by Xu Da... There is something wrong with Chen Youliang's building ship!

Can't stand the impact of much smaller ships!

These seemingly huge guys are basically strong on the outside and hard at the same time, and they are not useful!

Yes, it must be so.

Chen Youliang's rise was so short, even if he captured a lot of Yuan Ting's warships, it was absolutely impossible to create so many behemoths... But he did it, so there is only one explanation, he simply created it by force, using The materials are not up to standard, the hull is not strong enough, and the operation is even more inconvenient.

That's why... Chen Youliang had to connect the boat with iron chains and tie the boat together, so that he could advance and retreat freely, as if walking on the ground!

Got it, totally got it!

Almost in an instant, Zhang Ximeng figured out everything. What Chen Youliang was doing was not something new, but had to do it.

In this case, the performance of these building ships is very worrying. Once the fire ships approach, it must be very difficult to avoid them. And there will be no preventive measures above, as long as the fire is ignited, you are done.

Zhang Ximeng couldn't help laughing at himself. It's such a simple thing that he only wants to understand now. It seems that he is indeed not a smart person... But then again, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, who would have concluded that Chen Youliang's built-up ship was just a Does it have its own appearance?

There are too many things, no matter how simple it seems, only by actually experiencing it and seeing it with your own eyes can you understand the weight of it.

After observing a battle, Zhang Ximeng also seemed to have undergone a practice... From the initial shock of fear, to contemplation and reflection, and then to Zhizhu in his hand, he regained his confidence.

Zhang Ximeng already has enough confidence to win this battle.

Xu Da is really good, and Chen Youliang's truth is just tested out!

Looking at the battlefield at this moment, Xu Da has completely captured a building ship, and nearly a thousand soldiers on it were either killed or driven into the river.

The Zhu Family Army controlled the huge trophy, turned with difficulty, and headed towards the Zhu Family Army Camp.

After seeing this scene, Chen Youliang was angry.

This bunch of trash actually lost to Zhu Chongba again!

"Get on! Get on me!"

There were twenty or thirty giant building ships, connected by iron cables, and rushed towards the Zhu Family Army.

These gigantic building ships rushed towards the face with overwhelming momentum. The two Zhu family warships, who had no time to turn their heads, could not escape, so they could only give up their desperate attack.

The building ship was too tall, and their weapons could not attack each other at all. The stone bullets and artillery fired from the ship drowned the warship, and dozens of Zhu Family Army soldiers were buried in the river.

These building ships are still unwilling to be satisfied, and continue to chase and kill.

Seeing that he was getting closer and closer to the Zhu family's naval division.

At this moment, Yu Tonghai, the naval commander who had been waiting for the opportunity, finally launched. His fleet rushed out decisively and aimed at the Chen Junlou ship with artillery.

Even without Zhang Ximeng's blending of ~www.mtlnovel.com~'s firearms level at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, it is still remarkable. After several years of development, Zhu's army does have a number of artillery pieces, but like any early weapons, they are huge. It is cumbersome and has a lot of problems, which has always plagued these gods of war. It cannot play a role in land warfare, and can only be installed on huge warships.

Yu Tonghai gave an order, and the artillery fire burst out, making a sound like thunder.

The huge building ship was hit, and sawdust flew all over the sky, revealing amazing wounds, and there were even cracks in the ship, river water poured in, and the ship sank quickly.

Almost all of the twenty warships sank to the bottom of the river under the attack of Yu Tonghai... It's a pity that the fire rate of Zhu's army's artillery was too slow, and several of them came out after a round of shooting. If there is a problem, we can't continue to fire, otherwise, we can defeat Chen Jun just by relying on these artillery pieces.

"Superior, fortunately not humiliated, capture a building boat!"

Xu Da reported victory to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhang Ximeng couldn't wait, "Quick, show me!"

Lewen

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