Chapter 362: The attack succeeded, the fishing was successful
"Huang Taiji, I finally waited for you to come!"
Thousands of feet high in the sky, Li Dingguo sat on the back of a giant golden eagle, looking at the large fleet of ships sailing towards Huigou Fort on the river surface in front and below him, as well as the endless cavalry army marching along the river bank, and snorted coldly.
At this time, two larger fleets suddenly appeared in front and behind the enemy's fleet, heading towards them at a rapid speed!
This was the large fleet of the Fuxing Army's Xuanwu Third Battalion and Suzaku Legion. They had finally caught up with the enemy's large fleet in time, and together with the agreed Xuanwu Second Battalion's large fleet, they were outflanking the enemy's fleet at full speed!
The two large fleets of the Restoration Army, sailing at full speed, were much faster than the Tartar fleet, which was sailing at a moderate speed.
Li Dingguo saw clearly from high in the sky that his two large fleets were like two sharp arrows shot out. In less than an incense stick of time, they surrounded the enemy's large fleet in the middle, one in front and one behind.
"boom!"
"Boom!"...
When they were still ten miles away from the enemy, the large fleets of the Second and Third Battalions of Xuanwu, with their guns raised high, launched a concentrated fire attack on all the enemy treasure ships that had been locked!
One after another, scorching energy balls bombarded the protective light shields of the Tatar treasure ships, exploding with a loud bang!
This level of concentrated fire attack is obviously not something that the medium and low-quality treasure ships can withstand.
Among the enemy's large fleet, at least half were medium- and low-quality treasure ships. The protective light shields of the formations on the ships were blown up on the spot and turned into stars and disappeared.
There were also more than a dozen inferior treasure ships, whose hulls were badly damaged by the explosions and they were tilting on the river as if they were about to sink into the water.
This caused great suffering to the large number of Tatar logistics soldiers and soldiers from the three flags of the Han army on the ship. At least 30% of them were killed on the spot in this wave of concentrated fire!
More than half of the remaining soldiers were injured. Those who were lucky enough to escape the disaster ran around on the boat, trying to jump off the boat to escape.
In the blink of an eye, this large fleet raised by Shanxi merchants has become a mess, with screams and cries echoing throughout the river.
"boom!"
"Boom!"...
However, the salvo attack launched by all the treasure ships of the Restoration Army had just begun!
The first wave of salvos from nearly three hundred treasure ships of various levels had just ended, and the second wave of salvos had already begun.
When it comes to experience in water combat, the soldiers of the Xuanwu Legion are much stronger than the Tatars.
Even the Tatars' Han Army Eight Banners Firearms Battalion was far inferior to the soldiers of the Xuanwu Legion.
The Eight Banners soldiers of the Han army, which were formally organized under the order of Huang Taiji, had never experienced any large-scale water battles and were no match for the battle-hardened soldiers of the Xuanwu Camp.
At the same time, the sixty large treasure ships belonging to the Suzaku Legion had completed their shooting preparations for the overwhelming Tatar cavalry on the river bank, and nearly three hundred psychic cannons began concentrated fire attacks!
"boom!"……
The Tatar soldiers who were covered in all-round shooting were really in trouble this time.
They could never have imagined that the Fusion Army would adopt this tactic, brazenly surrounding their own large fleet and then immediately launching a surprise attack.
Even Huang Taiji underestimated the speed of the Fuxing Army's improved treasure ship, which could be fully utilized.
Although he had a certain understanding of the naval advantage of the Restoration Army, he ordered his fleet and the main force of 800,000 cavalry on the river bank to keep marching at the same speed, so that they could quickly support each other in the event of an enemy surprise attack.
Any practitioner with the fifth-level cultivation base can lead his soldiers to form a military killing formation to meet the enemy, and can rush into the water to fight with the enemy for about half an hour.
This was not a difficult task for the Later Jin's 800,000 elite soldiers and nearly a hundred level five cultivator generals.
Just don't use the killing array magic continuously during the battle.
All the Later Jin soldiers, including Huang Taiji, did not worry at all that they would be unable to react in time when faced with a sneak attack by the enemy.
Who would have thought that the surprise attack launched by the Renaissance Army would be so decisive, so open and aboveboard, without any hesitation.
After the two large fleets of the Restoration Army appeared together, one in front and one behind, they surrounded the enemy's large fleet and then immediately launched a concentrated fire attack. The whole process took no more than an incense stick of time.
Because he was worried that the nearly ten level five large birds of the Fuxing Army would attack his four Saker Falcons, Huang Taiji did not dare to let those Saker Falcons leave the main force too far since he led his troops into the pass. At most, they circled in the air within twenty miles of the main force.
The large fleet of the Restoration Army advanced at full speed and covered the mere twenty miles in just a moment.
Even if the four Saker Falcons discovered the enemy and went to warn Huang Taiji, it was too late to organize the soldiers to counterattack in time.
This kind of open raid was the first time that Huang Taiji and his soldiers encountered.
This tactic used by the Fuxing Army was not recorded in the book Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which was regarded as a holy book by the Later Jin clan.
They were surrounded by two large enemy fleets and attacked blatantly, and they didn't know how to respond for a moment.
In the established history, it is said that the Later Jin clan conquered the world with the help of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and this is not an exaggeration.
All the tactics they used came from the historical battles in the book Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
The water assault tactics adopted by the Fuxing Army were unprecedented in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and even Huang Taiji was unable to react to them.
The two large enemy fleets arrived too quickly and launched their artillery salvos even faster.
After the second wave of concentrated fire attacks was launched, the half of the Shanxi merchant treasure ship that had lost the protective light shield of the formation was immediately met with a devastating disaster!
A series of scorching white energy balls bombarded the hull and exploded, not only killing nearly half of the Tartar soldiers on the spot, but also blowing the hull into pieces!
Except for a few lucky medium-quality treasure ships that were still spinning crookedly on the river, all the low-quality treasure ships and most of the medium-quality treasure ships of this Shanxi merchant fleet were sunk on the spot!
The deaths of more than 100,000 soldiers from the Tatar Logistics Battalion and the Han Army's Three Flags Firearms Battalion even dyed this section of the river red!
Although the protective light shields of the formations on their only three high-quality treasure ships had not been blown up, they were still flickering in varying degrees of brightness. It was estimated that they would shatter if they were to withstand another wave of concentrated fire.
"Quick! Fire and fight back!"
"The boat is shaking, we can't operate normally!"
"If it can't be operated normally, then fire the psychic cannon on the ship in the direction of the enemy ship, quickly!"
"We can't use concentrated fire attacks now. Even if a few shots hit the Restoration Army's treasure ship, it's useless! We can't break the formation protection shield of their treasure ship at all!"
"Oh no! The enemy has launched another volley. Their cannons are more powerful than ours, with a longer range and better accuracy!"...
When the remaining enemy treasure ships were in a panic, the soldiers of the two large fleets of the Fusion Army once again launched a concentrated fire attack!
As the distance between the enemy and us was closing rapidly, this time even the thousands of crossbow carts on the Fuxing Army's treasure ship joined the concentrated fire attack.
"Woooo..."
"boom!"……
Because the number of the enemy's treasure ships has been reduced by more than half, the remaining dozen or so treasure ships will undoubtedly have to withstand more artillery shells and spiritual crossbow arrows.
“Crackle!”…
Without any surprise, after enduring the third wave of concentrated fire attacks with double the intensity, all the treasure ships, including the three high-quality treasure ships of the Shanxi merchants, had their formation protection shields shattered!
In this wave of concentrated fire attack, the psychic artillery of the Fusion Army first shattered the remaining protective light shields of the enemy ship formations. Then, the overwhelming psychic crossbow arrows, like a violent storm, swept towards the Tatars and the three-flag soldiers of the Han army on the dozen or so enemy treasure ships!
Facing this kind of attack, except for those Tatar generals in the Qi Refining Realm on the ship who activated their body-protecting true Qi and Gang Qi in time to block the incoming crossbow arrows, almost all the Tatar soldiers in the Body Refining Realm and the soldiers of the three flags of the Han army were shot into a hornet's nest, howling in pain as they were shot into the air by the huge force of the arrows, or were nailed to the deck!
The third wave of concentrated fire attacks launched by the soldiers of the Renaissance Army achieved tremendous results.
Among the Tartars and traitor soldiers on these dozen treasure ships, except for more than thirty Qi Refining Realm masters who survived, most of the Body Refining Realm masters were killed on the spot.
Most of the soldiers in the Body Refining Realm who were luckier were also seriously injured and lay on the deck wailing.
The miserable screams made one's teeth ache.
"Come on!"
"Let's go ashore and join the Khan!"
"Run! The enemy is preparing to launch a fourth wave of concentrated fire attack!"...
The more than 30 Tartar Qi-refining masters who survived on the enemy ship, including Fan Yubin, were so frightened that they almost died when they saw the enemy's large fleet was about to launch another wave of attacks.
They all displayed their skills, jumped off the treasure ship, and desperately flew towards the river bank!
"Damn it!"
"Li Dingguo, you deserve to die!"
Huang Taiji looked at his own cavalry army that had just been thrown into chaos by the enemy's psychic cannons and crossbow carts, and then saw that his own fleet had been completely destroyed in just a dozen or so breaths. He was so angry that he almost vomited blood on the spot!
"All soldiers, listen up! Form a battle formation immediately!"
"All flags, soldiers immediately form a military killing formation and fight back against the enemy!"
"I must sink all of these enemy treasure ships!"
"Don't panic! Although the Fusion Army has many treasure ships, they are no match for our military killing array!"
"Quick! What are you still doing? Form a formation and fight back immediately!"
Huang Taiji leaped onto the back of a Level 5 late-stage Gyrfalcon beside him, and then quickly rode it to a height of a hundred feet. He mobilized his whole body of energy and divine thoughts, and shouted loudly to his 800,000 cavalry soldiers. As long as the soldiers acted faster, formed a military formation and launched a counterattack, this time the encounter with the two large fleets of the Fuxing Army had not been defeated.
The enemy's large fleet now has the advantage, but it cannot stop the counterattack launched by so many of its own Later Jin warriors who formed a military killing formation.
However, in this situation, would the two large fleets of the Fuxing Army that succeeded in the surprise attack watch the Tartar army forming a military killing formation to counterattack?
This is naturally impossible.
After Pan Jinghua's surprise attack was successful, he immediately dispatched several medium-quality treasure ships to clean up the mess on the river, and took over the three large, high-quality treasure ships of the Shanxi merchants that had lost control on the river.
All the remaining treasure ships of the Second and Third Battalions of Xuanwu quickly turned their guns and, together with the Suzaku Legion fleet that was attacking the river bank, once again launched a concentrated fire attack on the overwhelming Tatar cavalry soldiers!
Under the covering volley of hundreds of psychic cannons and thousands of psychic crossbow carts, the Tartar soldiers who were trying to form a battle formation to counterattack found it extremely difficult to even line up their troops, and it was simply impossible for them to form a military killing formation in a short period of time.
"The entire army retreats thirty miles, quickly!"
Huang Taiji was angry and anxious watching from the air, and gave orders loudly again.
He also didn't dare to ride on the Saker Falcon alone to attack the Fusion Army's fleet. Although he could get close to the enemy's treasure ships, it was impossible for him to break the opponent's formation protection shield in a short time.
Once the enemy's level 5 master leads an elite army and launches a siege using a military killing formation, blocking the battlefield space, the possibility of being surrounded and killed is very high.
Following Huang Taiji's order, hundreds of thousands of Later Jin cavalry soldiers who had long wanted to get away from the river bank, as if a heavy burden had been lifted off their shoulders, rode their horses quickly away from the river bank.
Because the number of the Later Jin Tartars was too large, from a distance it looked like the tide receding, and the scene was quite spectacular.
When the Fuxing Army bombarded the shore earlier, the Tartar soldiers riding on their spiritual beast horses could easily avoid the areas covered by artillery fire on the ground, so not many Tartar cavalry soldiers were killed, and the total number would not have exceeded 10,000.
The greatest achievement of this round of assault by the Fuxing Army was the destruction of the enemy's large fleet, and incidentally, the soldiers of the Tatar logistics battalion and the firearms battalion of the three flags of the Han army were almost wiped out in one fell swoop.
Only about thirty enemy Qi Refining masters managed to escape to the river bank in time, away from the range of the artillery fire.
"Ok?"
"That is?"
At this time, Huang Taiji was surprised to find that in the eastern sky, there was a huge golden eagle hovering thousands of feet high.
Looking closely, I found that there was a person sitting on the back of the big golden eagle.
"This must be Li Dingguo!"
"He is nearby observing the progress of the battle so that he can make corresponding combat arrangements!"
Huang Taiji showed a cold smile and thought to himself, "As long as Li Dingguo is killed, it doesn't matter even if our army loses the large fleet, all the logistical supplies and the firearms camp!"
"Once Li Dingguo dies, this Fuxing Army will no longer be a concern. It will soon collapse and cease to exist."
"Although it is possible that he has broken through to the early stage of level six, this possibility is not high."
"Even if he is a master of the same level as me, I will not be afraid of him."
"I want to try and see if I can kill Li Dingguo here. Otherwise, I won't be able to swallow this anger!"
Once this idea emerged in Huang Taiji's mind, he could no longer suppress the desire to kill Li Dingguo with his own hands.
Even if Li Dingguo broke through to the early stage of level six, he could only tie with me at most.
The other party should have a natal magic weapon on him, just like Huang Taiji, and it is an innate top-grade magic weapon, no worse than Li Dingguo's.
This innate divine artifact, the Xuanyuan Water Controlling Flag, has had its five seals removed by Huang Taiji, and its power is extremely strong.
No matter how monstrous Li Dingguo was, he had only practiced martial arts for four years. It was impossible for him to unlock his natal magic weapon to more than the fifth level.
In order to unseal his own natal divine weapon, Huang Taiji spent a full year before finding a way to remove the seal.
Later, it took nearly four years to find a way to unlock it and remove the five seals.
Huang Taiji not only possessed his own divine weapon, the Xuanyuan Water-Controlling Flag, but also an acquired divine weapon, the Imperial Seal, which was a top-grade artifact obtained from Ligdan Khan.
This special artifact of luck, with the help of the clan's luck, has a power that is no less powerful than the Xuanyuan Water Controlling Flag.
In terms of attack, it's even a little stronger.
This extremely special acquired artifact, the imperial seal, cannot be refined into an innate artifact, but it can be used to suppress the clan's fortune after ordinary refining.
There was no problem at all for Huang Taiji to take advantage of the luck of the Later Jin clan and mobilize them to kill the enemy.
Even if Li Dingguo had two magical weapons in his possession as he guessed, Huang Taiji had enough confidence to deal with him.
Now is a great opportunity.
Li Dingguo has now left the protection of the army and is alone with a big golden eagle flying thousands of feet in the sky. This is the God-given opportunity for Huang Taiji to kill him.
Huang Taiji was a man of swift and decisive action. Having made the decision, he did not delay any longer. He gave an order to the Saker Falcon under him, and rode the Saker Falcon straight towards Li Dingguo and the golden eagle!
The late level five Saker Falcon was extremely fast and arrived in front of the golden eagle in the blink of an eye.
"Huang Taiji?"
"Ha ha……"
While observing the situation on the battlefield, Li Dingguo was originally thinking of fishing to see if he could lure out his mortal enemy Huang Taiji.
Now that he saw that Huang Taiji had broken through to the sixth level of cultivation, relying on his high level of cultivation, he actually wanted to come and kill him personally!
"You are Li Dingguo? You have indeed broken through to the early stage of level six!"
"damn it!"
The situation he least wanted to see occurred. Huang Taiji was immediately disappointed and shouted angrily, "Even if you are a level six expert, I will still kill you today!"
"It is because of you, Li Dingguo, that my carefully planned layout has been greatly affected and completely disrupted my original plan. It is really hateful!"
"I never thought that among the Han people, who are on the decline, there would be a monster like you who would dream of replacing the Ming Dynasty!"
"Today I will kill you with my own hands and completely cut off the possibility of your Han people rising again!"
Huang Taiji hated Li Dingguo, this evil genius, with gnashing teeth.
Because Li Dingguo deliberately told the Great Jin to hide and restrain its own aura so as not to scare Huang Taiji away.
This trick really worked, making the Saker Falcon, which was in the late stage of level five, mistakenly believe that the golden eagle was still at the peak of level five, and came boldly to die.
"Huang Taiji, you disgusting fat man!"
"I heard that your Da Yu'er is having an affair with Dorgon, and they often meet in private when you are not at home. Is that true?
"I think this is almost certain. Otherwise, this rumor would not have spread from faraway Liaodong to here, making our soldiers and civilians know about this disgusting thing."
He was setting a trap for Huang Taiji without leaving any trace.
Because Huang Taiji, who had great luck, was not so easy to kill. If he failed to kill him, he could take the opportunity to stir up civil strife among the Later Jin clan, which would also be a very good result.
Li Dingguo is not talking nonsense.
The military intelligence personnel hiding in the Liaodong area mentioned this matter in the intelligence reported back.
This is not groundless, it must be true.
"what!"
"Li Dingguo, you really deserve to die!"
“This is a rumor!”
"It can't be true!"
"I'm going to kill you for talking nonsense. Prepare to die!"
Huang Taiji was fooled and slapped in the face by the enemy. He was so angry that he was going crazy!
While cursing loudly, he summoned his martial arts form and his innate magic weapon, the Xuanyuan Water Controlling Flag, jumped up from the back of the Saker Falcon, and pounced towards Li Dingguo in mid-air!
(End of this chapter)
