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"Director Li, the Srivijaya's warship may be heading south from Ling Yamen to encircle us. We rested overnight yesterday. The Srivijaya's warship should arrive today, at [-]:[-] p.m. at the latest." Tang Zijian Said.

Li Bao didn't speak.

Tang Zijian continued: "That is to say, we must end the war before this afternoon, otherwise we will face the risk of a double attack."

Li Bao looked at the group of big man-eating warships approaching quickly in front of him, and said lightly: "It's enough for noon."

At this time, those merchant ships not far away noticed something strange.

"Officer, what are they going to do?"

Su Jing said: "All the ships retreat quickly, there is going to be a war."

As soon as he said this, the people on the deck were stunned for a moment, and then they started to get busy.

Su Jing's three merchant ships began to retreat.

The rest of the merchant ships obviously noticed something was wrong and began to retreat.

There are also merchant ships from other countries here, and they quickly retreated.

The fifty warships of the big cannibals are arranged in three rows, and the front row is a concave arc, pushing towards the Song army like a huge sickle.

The distance is getting closer and closer, four miles, three miles, two miles, one mile.

After entering a distance of one mile, the battleship group in the first row of the big cannibal began to split into two parts, outflanking the Song army respectively.

Chapter 958 Artillery is the truth! (third change)

"Boss, the warships of the Song people are so close to each other, do they also want to quickly dock with us and fight hand-to-hand?"

"Even so, they do not have as many warships as we do, nor as brave as our soldiers."

The distance between the two sides has entered within 500 meters.

The two wings of the big cannibal have extended to the two columns outside the Song army, basically completing the outflanking.

The Song army standing on the deck could already clearly see the structure of the big man-eating warship.

This kind of shipbuilding is indeed different from the structure of the warships of the Song Army.

The cannibal warship is even more slender, with only one huge triangular sail, and the hull is also very tall.

This kind of sloop not only has a huge hull, but also has a high degree of flexibility.

No wonder the Arabs were able to compete with the Romans for hundreds of years in the Mediterranean.

After a while, the main warships of the big cannibals began to enter the Song Army's formation.

The distance between the two warships immediately stretched to about 60 meters.

At this distance, the two sides can almost see the soldiers on the other side's deck.

The Song army wore leather armor uniformly. The structure of this kind of leather armor is not the same as that of the army leather armor. Its joints are easy to cut off, and soldiers have enough time to untie them after falling into the water.

People on both sides stared at each other intently.

Song Jun saw the trebuchet on the big cannibal's boat, which was not too big and had a simple structure.

The big cannibal also saw the artillery on the side of the Song army's ship, but the big cannibal didn't know what it was.

With the sound of the big man-eating horn, the war drums sounded, and the Arabian warships that entered the Song Army's formation began to shoot arrows.

The first wave of dense arrow rain rushed towards the Song army, some of them fell into the sea, splashing small water waves, and some of them fell on the Song army's ship.

Song Jun immediately blocked with a shield, and the arrow shot on the wooden shield, making a thumping sound.

At this time, the Song army also responded to the big cannibal with crossbow arrows, and part of the arrow rain also fell on the big cannibal's warship, and the big cannibal also had a shield.

In this way, the two sides had an appetizer first.

As the big cannibals entered with multiple warships, the big cannibals began to prepare trebuchets.

"Fire," Istaheli ordered.

After the man-eating artillery filled the cannon with stones, stones flew into the air one after another, and smashed towards the Song Army warship more than fifty meters away.

bang bang bang...

Stones fell on Song Jun's boat one by one.

Some hit the sea, splashing waves of water.

Some smashed on the side of the ship, making inconspicuous dents on the side of the ship.

Some of them hit the shields, causing pain in the wrists of the soldiers of the Song Army holding the shields.

Others hit people directly.

However, the hit rate was very low, only two or three people were hit.

"Director Li, the big cannibal has entered the range of our artillery!" Tang Zijian reminded nervously.

It was his first time participating in a war, and there hadn't been a large-scale fight yet. The atmosphere at this time was already overwhelming.

Li Bao didn't speak.

If Li Bao doesn't give an order, the Song army will not fight back.

The orderly standing on the mast was motionless.

Stones were thrown at the Song army one after another, and more and more soldiers were hit.

Li Bao still didn't move, Tang Zijian was so anxious that he was sweating all over his head, and even his breathing became extremely heavy.

"Director Li..." He struggled to force out his voice, but Li Bao remained motionless.

He finally realized how great the wars he read in the stories before were all fucking on paper, and most people might have trembling legs standing here, let alone lashing out at Fang Qiu on the battlefield.

The cannibal warship is still approaching the Song army.

Even Song Jun had heard the arrogant shout from the big cannibal on the opposite side: "Come over, board the boat, and kill them all!"

"Hurry up, rely on the boat!"

Tang Zijian saw the big cannibals, Tianzhu people, Persians and Sanfoqi people on the opposite side, holding bows, arrows, knives and axes in their hands, and shouting with ferocious faces.

His mind was blank and his hands were shaking.

The time has not been too long, but to Tang Zijian, it seems like 100 years have passed.

Except for the outflanking two wings of the big man-eating warships, the other [-] ships have all entered the Song Army's formation and quickly advanced towards the Song Army.

50 meters, 40 meters, 30 meters, 20 meters...

With the continuous advancement, the big cannibal's bow and arrow and catapult shooting became more and more violent.

From the very beginning to the present, Song Jun only fought back with crossbow arrows.

The big man-eating man started screaming crazily with excitement, someone had already taken out the rope, and was about to pull it a little closer and start throwing it.

Once the landing is completed, it means that the two sides will have to fight hand-to-hand.

"Hahaha! Quick! Get ready to dock! Kill all these Song people!"

"Kill them!"

Not only the food warships inside the army formation began to approach, but also those surrounded by the two wings began to approach.

Dozens of warships and thousands of people shouted and killed.

This made the nearby merchant ships feel like frightened birds.

"Officer, the imperial ship seems to be surrounded?" Ah Fu said in horror.

"I saw it!" Su Jing said with a gloomy face.

The people on the other boats also showed panic.

"Boss Li!" Tang Zijian almost shouted out loud, because the cannibal's warship was only ten meters away.

"Fire!" Li Bao shouted suddenly, "Fire! Boom them!"

The artilleryman who received the order immediately ignited the fuse that had been prepared.

The gunpowder at the base of the barrel was ignited, and there was a loud noise. The iron cannon was pushed out of the barrel, and rushed straight towards the big man-eating warship ten meters away.

Ten meters!Only ten meters away!

For the densely arranged tiger squat cannons, it is like meeting gods and killing gods, meeting Buddhas and killing Buddhas!

The first iron cannon actually hit the head of a big cannibal who was holding a rope in his hand and was about to throw it over.

The forehead of that head instantly split open like a ripe watermelon in summer, and a large piece of red and white burst out of it, flying in the air, and was instantly scorched and blackened by the high temperature of the iron ball.

The big cannibal fell to the ground, and the rest of the people hadn't even realized what happened.

Hearing the sound of artillery, the other Song soldiers who had endured for a long time immediately started to light the fire.

Song Jun's artillery was fired one after another like a series of firecrackers.

28 warships, each with 40 guns, a total of 1120 artillery pieces, launched a bombardment of the enemy in a very short period of time.

At that moment, it was like a terrible steel rainstorm appeared on the sea.

Dozens of man-eating warships had more than a dozen holes in each one.

The ship's side was impacted so that sawdust flew across the board, and the deck was even more smashed to pieces.

Even the bottom of the deck was pierced, and iron cannons rushed in, killing the oarsman on the spot, and the impact caused debris to fly inside, making it a mess.

The densely packed people above have become live targets for iron cannons.

Countless people were thrown up on the spot, and the people behind were thrown into the air. At the same time, blood and flesh splattered everywhere.

For a moment, the wanton clamor and shouts turned into desperate screams.

Chapter 959 This Naval Battle That Changed the World (Part [-])

All this happens in just a few seconds.

What made the cannibal even more desperate was that at least twenty ships began to flood.

That means the ships are going to sink.

The crew members jumped into the sea in despair, while others lay on the deck in a mess.

Tang Zijian saw that the big cannibal's boat was only about five meters away from Song Jun's boat, and slowly stopped.

He originally thought that the big man-eating ship would hit him, but now he realized that he was wrong.

Still lack of practical experience.

In naval battles, the speed of the ships on both sides will slow down as the distance gets closer. This is to prevent the ships from being smashed too fast.

Who would just walk away and die before the outcome?

Of course, some ships continued to slowly approach the warships of the Song Army.

But Song Jun's attack was not over yet.

After the impact of the artillery, it was followed by the firecrackers.

Each ship is equipped with 100 gunners, 50 on each side.

They lit the matchstick on the firecracker, and the matchstick burned with blue smoke, and then ignited the gunpowder in the firecracker.

bang bang bang...

Pieces of iron sand sprayed towards the man-eating ship opposite.

The concentrated queuing and spraying made up for the weakness of lack of confidence, and those big cannibals who were not bombarded by the artillery immediately tried the power of the firecracker.

Someone's face was bloody from the impact, his eyes burst, and he fell to the ground screaming.

Someone's chest was hit so that the flesh and blood exploded, and even iron sand entered the internal organs, spraying the internal organs into a sieve.

Even many of the ropes connecting the sails were broken by the impact of the dense firecrackers, and the sails began to deform.

The hull began to tilt, and the big cannibals on the deck fell into the sea one after another following the slope.

The blunderbuss is one of the basic firearms of the Song Dynasty navy. Every warship of the Song army is equipped with it, and firing the blunderbuss immediately after firing the artillery is the standard tactic for all warships.

28 ships, with a total of 2800 guns, fired at the man-eating warship one after another.

Intensive shooting made up for the gaps in artillery coverage.

The big cannibal never imagined that there would be such a terrifying weapon next.