A Noble Family's Romantic Journey - Chapter 683

The three crossbows on the two wagons had no chance to be reloaded after firing. At such close range, reloading would give the enemy more opportunities, and the soldiers reloading could be hit by darts and crossbow bolts at any time. Therefore, the key to victory this time depended on the effect of the two three crossbows firing their giant arrows. The soldiers on the wagons kept a close eye on the approaching enemy while watching when the crossbow bolts would be fired.
After two loud clanging sounds, the giant arrows on the crossbows finally shot out. Behind the rapidly flying arrows followed a long tail—the rope tied to the end of the arrow. On the naval warships, the crossbows used three different types of giant arrows: one was a regular giant arrow, another had a rope tied to its tail, and the last had a flame that could be lit at the arrowhead—all designed for fighting the enemy on the river.
Two giant arrows struck their target in succession—the hull of a small boat belonging to the Wu-Yue navy. No enemy was harmed. However, once the boat was hit by the arrows and its hull was secured by ropes, rendering it unable to move freely, it was all over. Some soldiers on the boat clung tightly to the ropes, preventing the boat from moving, while others used repeating crossbows and ordinary military crossbows to unleash a barrage of fire at the captured boat. It was too late for the other two boats to come to the rescue.
Eight more Wu-Yue naval soldiers were killed, and two reconnaissance boats were captured. The situation was now two against two, and everything was clear. However, the remaining two boats showed no intention of retreating. One boat charged directly at the other, intending to perish together with it. The four soldiers on the other boat took off their armor and fell into the river, becoming water ghosts.
Abandoning the small boat and jumping into the river to become water ghosts wasn't about escaping, but about fighting for their lives. At this point, it was impossible for these four water ghosts to swim to shore alive. The small boat quickly drifted away with the current. Their only goal was to go into the water and try to sink the warring vehicles. As for what would happen to them after the vehicles were destroyed, or whether they could survive, these four water ghosts didn't care at all!
This was the Wu-Yue navy, which the Wu-Yue rebels were so proud of. Only in actual river battles could they unleash their full power. However, using a small boat to ram a large warship only resulted in the small boat sinking. All four sailors on the small boat were killed. As for the water ghosts below, Jiao Zan stripped off all his clothes and personally led three soldiers into the water, each carrying a pair of water-splitting daggers. These daggers were pointed at both ends with a loop in the middle, allowing them to be worn on the wrist or fingers. Because they were short but sharp, they offered little resistance in the water, making them suitable not only for underwater combat but also for scuttling boats underwater. They were weapons passed down from the ancestors of the Dongting Lake navy, specifically for use by water ghosts.
The underwater battle was swift. Within three minutes of Jiao Zan entering the water, two corpses surfaced—both were water ghosts from the Wu-Yue navy. The river water near the bodies began to turn red. A minute later, three soldiers from the Dongting Lake navy also quickly emerged, coming up to replenish their oxygen levels. They took a deep breath and quickly went back down. Another minute later, two more Wu-Yue navy water ghost soldiers, along with Jiao Zan and the three Dongting Lake navy soldiers, surfaced. Jiao Zan and the other three Dongting Lake navy soldiers were unharmed. The four of them quickly boarded the moored boat. Of the four corpses, two were killed by Jiao Zan himself, both pierced in the heart by the Fen Shui E Mei dagger.
The defeat of all the vanguard reconnaissance ships greatly boosted the morale of the Dongting Lake Navy soldiers, but it also angered the Wu-Yue Navy, which had just returned victorious. What angered the Wu-Yue Navy even more was the Dongting Lake Navy's banner. After Jiao Zan's victory, Meng Liang ordered the Dongting Lake Navy's banner to be raised. Everyone in the Wu-Yue Navy knew that the Dongting Lake Navy was Liu Lang's navy, which had been defeated three times by Liu Lang through trickery. Now the Wu-Yue Navy finally had a chance to avenge their fallen comrades and wipe out the Turtle Navy, which had been hiding in Dongting Lake, and finally vent their anger.
Both sides had completed their formations, and it was time for the main forces to clash. On the Dongting Lake naval side, Jiao Zan had quickly boarded his brother's flagship. Jiao Zan wanted to personally go to the lookout tower and use a telescope to continue observing the movements and scale of the Wu-Yue navy, especially the number of warships and the types of warships in the vanguard. This was crucial intelligence in naval warfare, and could even determine the outcome of a naval battle.
The Wu-Yue navy had approximately 260 warships, and the number of its large ships exceeded that of the Dongting Lake navy. However, according to Jiao Zan's observation, some of the Wu-Yue navy's warships were severely damaged and had only been temporarily repaired. Taking advantage of this, the Wu-Yue navy employed a tactic of first using ordinary bows and crossbows to inflict as much damage as possible on the enemy's soldiers, weakening their strength and reducing the warships' mobility and defensive capabilities.
Although the Wu-Yue navy was facing headwinds, the naval commander remained incredibly confident. The Wu-Yue navy had never been afraid of anyone in direct combat, and they had previously defeated the Southern Tang navy. These Dongting Lake navies, who only knew how to play tricks and act like tortoises, were nothing to be afraid of. The Wu-Yue navy thus faced the wind and drew their bows and crossbows, firing tens of thousands of arrows at once.
In naval warfare, rockets are not used in the first wave of attack unless there is thorough preparation. If someone were to use rockets in the first wave when both sides are evenly matched, that person would be considered foolish. Although rockets can ignite warships, for the sake of their own ship's safety, ships will not have many rockets stored on them. Furthermore, if rockets are used when the enemy ship still has many soldiers, it is difficult for the rockets to harm the enemy soldiers, and the enemy soldiers can extinguish the incoming rockets in a short time. Therefore, rockets are only used when the enemy ship has suffered heavy losses and cannot extinguish the rockets quickly, so that the enemy ship can be ignited in the shortest possible time.
Since the Wu-Yue navy was so valiant, attacking with a hail of arrows even against the wind, showing no intention of charging forward, Meng Liang decided not to hold back. All the warships immediately retaliated, firing from the three-bow crossbows at the bows, the rapid-fire repeating crossbows, and even ordinary military crossbows and bows. The arrows fired by both sides were as numerous as locusts, densely packed and constantly colliding in the air. Because of the tailwind, most of the arrows fired by the Dongting Lake navy landed on top of the Wu-Yue navy warships, while most of the arrows fired by the Wu-Yue navy soldiers fell into the river due to the wind direction.
The arrows rained down on both sides wave after wave, and both sides tried to control the speed of their warships, neither intending to rush forward and engage in boarding combat immediately. However, after holding out for less than an hour, the Wu-Yue navy finally lost patience, and the naval general gave the order to attack directly. All the warships of the Wu-Yue navy raised their sails and rushed towards the Dongting Lake navy.
The Wu-Yue navy had just finished a battle with the Southern Tang navy, and had exhausted a large number of arrows that could not be replenished. Therefore, they could not engage in a prolonged exchange of fire with the Dongting Lake navy. Moreover, with the help of repeating crossbows, the Dongting Lake navy, although outnumbered, unleashed a significantly more powerful barrage of arrows than the Wu-Yue navy. At the same time, and most importantly, the wind direction had changed, giving the Wu-Yue navy a favorable wind and current upstream. This was the perfect opportunity for the Wu-Yue navy to launch a full-scale attack and completely crush the Dongting Lake navy.
Seeing the Wu-Yue navy rushing towards them from afar, Meng Liang had no intention of fighting them head-on. At this moment, the Wu-Yue navy's warships were sailing with the wind and current. The Dongting Lake navy's warships, in their current state of barely managing to drift with the current, were simply unable to withstand the Wu-Yue navy's warships charging towards them with peak impact. Now, they only had two options: retreat or avoid them.
Meng Liang will not retreat. This is a battle to restore the prestige of the Dongting Lake Navy. In fact, Meng Liang had anticipated this situation when the battle began. All the warships had received Meng Liang's signal to wait for orders. Once the order was given, all the ships immediately dispersed to both sides to clear the middle waterway, thus avoiding the enemy's attack.
Upon receiving the order, all the warships of the Dongting Lake Navy quickly separated from the middle and moved to the banks, clearing the middle waterway. They watched as the warships of the Wu and Yue navies passed through the middle of the fleet. The rain of arrows from both sides continued unabated. With the help of the wind and the current, all the warships of the Wu and Yue navies broke through the center of the Dongting Lake Navy in a short time, but without capsizing a single warship of the Dongting Lake Navy.
Many soldiers of the Wu-Yue navy turned around and looked at the Dongting Lake navy that was hiding behind them. Everyone was mocking the Dongting Lake navy for being cowardly and afraid of death, calling them a bunch of cowards. But this time, the Wu-Yue navy was determined to annihilate Liu Lang's Dongting Lake navy. The flagship of the Wu-Yue navy quickly sent out a signal, and all warships turned around to prepare to continue the attack.
The warships of the Wu-Yue navy were rapidly turning around. Meng Liang also ordered his soldiers to quickly raise their flags, and all the warships quickly assembled, turned their bows, and prepared for battle. Everything was done according to the combat methods they had been training for. This time, Meng Liang wanted to defeat the Wu-Yue navy, which outnumbered the Dongting Lake navy by two to one, and let the Wu-Yue navy know who the overlord of the Yangtze River was.
The warships were positioned at the vanguard. The Wu-Yue navy intended to use the speed of the warships to pursue the Dongting Lake navy, which might try to escape, and prevent the Dongting Lake navy from evading as quickly as before. With the speed of the warships, it would be easy to change direction during the attack and catch up with other warships that were trying to evade or escape.
Meng Liang concentrated all forty warships at the forefront. The small boats were too small to withstand the direct impact of the medium-sized warships of the Wu-Yue navy, and the number of "Fish Dragon" and "Black Shark" ships was too small and too cumbersome. The only ships that could be used for direct confrontation were the warships.
Half of the soldiers of the Dongting Lake Navy on the forty warships were busy unloading bags of supplies. All the supplies were specifically requested by Meng Liang before the expedition, all for the needs of the war. After the large amount of supplies was loaded onto the deck, before the enemy could approach, the soldiers of the Dongting Lake Navy opened the bags of fine sand and scattered large amounts of sand onto the deck.

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