Troubled Times: Start with 800 Dead Soldiers

Five steam warships, long-range mobile combat.

This was absolutely impossible in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Even Li Dong, who had been on the battlefield for a long time in the past, felt a little worried when the Chinese navy launched such an attack.

The best defense is to take the initiative to attack. He naturally understands this truth, but he attacks like this.

Su Yuanjing hates the fact that iron cannot become steel.

Not long after he arrived here, he drove these dandy boys out of the Song Dynasty Navy camp, and was reduced from a Beijing official to training soldiers in the lower court, which was a bit of a loss.

But after all, this was all that was left of the Song Dynasty Navy. He gathered all the remaining naval forces here and bet his life and wealth with the court. Sometimes he didn't know whether his efforts would be useful.

Next to Su Yuanjing is his trusted general Zhao Wuji, who is also an important confidant of the Navy.

Recently, the three hundred warships that had recently been purged were all assembled. After completing everything, he came here to report to Su Yuanjing.

Su Yuanjing snorted: "I originally thought there would be about five to six hundred warships, carrying 5 navy and land troops, including more than 2 navy, and the forbidden army can fight almost more than 2 people. Once Together with the Jin Army, we will definitely be able to annihilate the Su thieves in this battle."

Zhao Wuji was helpless and his eyes became even darker: "My subordinates have tried their best."

At this point, the two of them couldn't say anything more. Su Yuanjing put down the pen in his hand and said, "Let's go and have a look with me."

The two of them came out of the Chinese army's tent, and the moonlight shone on the sea. On the coast were all the existing warships of the Song Navy.

However, there was a bit of chill in the sea breeze in the air, which made Su Yuanjing, a veteran on the battlefield, suddenly feel uncomfortable.

He turned around and looked at Zhao Wuji beside him: "Have you smelled that there seems to be a murderous aura in the air?"

Zhao Wuji held the sword in one hand and sniffed it with his nose: 'Sir, why don't I smell anything? ’

Su Yuanjing's feeling was accurate. At this moment, ten nautical miles away, five new National Defense Army warships were all under the leadership of Li Dong. The internal agents of the Song Dynasty Navy at the secret service headquarters acted as leaders and reported to Li Dong.

"General Li, with his humble position and the four agents under his command, were ordered by the agent headquarters to contact the navy camp and point out the specific location."

Li Dong raised his head: "Is the place ahead where the Song Navy warship is?"

"Yes, General."

"Approximately how many ships are there?"

"More than three hundred ships are all the best of the Song Dynasty navy."

"In addition, our people have been prepared on the shore, setting off fireworks and providing gun position coordinates to the army."

Li Dong turned around and ordered the officers beside him: "Prepare to hold the fire lanterns. Order the gunboats to line up in a line. When the fireworks are over, immediately set off the fire lanterns. At the same time, each warship will fire its own cannons and fire more incendiary bombs."

The officer immediately replied yes. As soon as he left, the lurking agent couldn't suppress his inner curiosity: "General, you guys, what are you doing, what kind of ship is this? Why is it rumbling? It's still made of iron armor."

As soon as these words came out, Li Dong and others all laughed. Li Dong looked at the agent lurking in the Song Dynasty Navy and said: "This is our latest iron-clad steam motor ship, and it is the latest weapon of the National Defense Army. Okay. , you have worked hard enough, please come and put these brothers in place and wait for our good news."

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"Search, whoosh, whoosh!"

A burst of fireworks suddenly sounded, and then they rose into the sky, blooming into beautiful fireworks.

"What's going on? Where are the fireworks?"

Su Yuanjing and Zhao Wuji, who were inspecting, were both stunned by the sudden fireworks.

A few nautical miles away, according to the order, the naval warships of the National Defense Army lined up in a row, and five steam-powered warships greeted the sea.

The flame lantern was also turned on to send a signal to other warships. The flame lantern was equivalent to a semaphore at night.

Almost at the same time, the main battleships also released the prepared flares.

Su Xia's flares were not necessarily very sophisticated, and their energy efficiency was far inferior to modern flares. Su Xia set them up based on the composition of modern flares, and pushed them into the sky with light artillery.

In fact, the flare used by Su Xia still played an amazing role in this long night. The flare hit the dark night, and then burned violently and quickly, lighting up almost half of the beach.

"What it is?"

Zhao Wuji looked at the flares shining high up, still confused.

"Prepare your guns and fire!"

"Dong dong dong dong!"

Three nautical miles away, gunboats began firing.

Zhao Wuji, who realized something was wrong, was the first to react, "No, sir, it was the artillery fire from Su Xiajun."

However, in the night sky, artillery shells came like raindrops. On the mobile warships, there were fifteen or six artillery pieces on each warship. In one salvo, seventy or eighty rounds of artillery shells were fired. The first round was of course a test fire. The purpose It's for calibration.

However, when the second round of shells came back, their accuracy was much better. The targets were all on warships. The artillery was equipped with incineration bombs made of sulfur stone. They hit the wooden warships and burned them quickly. A raging fire broke out.

The purpose of the Su Xia Protectorate Army was to destroy the warships and completely control the sea, not to eliminate the effective strength of the navy or how many naval forces were destroyed.

Sure enough, those warships were destroyed by artillery shells and continued to burn. The burning wood and hundreds of warships became a huge target, and the burning fireball attracted more naval cannonballs and incendiary bombs.

The fierce shells attacked and woke up the nearby soldiers. They fled in all directions. Only Su Yuanjing stared at everything with his mouth open, helpless.

He watched helplessly as hundreds of wooden ships were shattered by the incoming cannonballs, which seemed to be the last straw in his heart.

Zhao Wuji on the side advised sadly: "My lord, my lord, let's go quickly, this is dangerous."

The shells hit the warship, but some shells flew to the beach and even exploded more than ten meters away from them.

But at this moment, Su Yuanjing's face was ashen. He pushed Zhao Wuji away and said, "Go, we can't let all the soldiers escape, go quickly."

Zhao Wuji nodded dully, and just when he turned around and took a few steps, he saw that Su Yuanjing was already like a walking corpse. He was wailing in pain. All his inner expectations and the objects he relied on and trusted were completely lost at this moment.

At this point, all the naval forces of the Northern Song Dynasty army had been completely destroyed. The Northern Song Dynasty had completely lost its sea control over China. Su Xia's naval force protecting the country had become the largest naval force in the entire Asia, unrivaled by anyone. !