"Except for our ship, all other ships must speed up and leave. They are only allowed to provide assistance from the periphery and are not allowed to turn around."
Ding Jiayong saw that the other warships also wanted to turn back. Of course, he could understand their current mood, but there were some things that he couldn't do that to. It was obvious that these Fuso boats had no intention of returning alive. They just wanted to die with us.
You have finally managed to break out. If you turn back, you will fall into their trap. There are hundreds of small boats like this in the distance. If we let them all come over, we will be dead.
Two warships of the Tang Dynasty Navy were already on fire. Although the brothers on the ship tried their best to put out the fire, it was obviously not very effective.
There is no way around it. You have to know that all navy warships are made of wood. Although they are on the sea, if they are exposed to Mars, they will not be able to survive.
"Don't worry about it, just jump into the water."
Ding Jiayong said loudly with a loud speaker that it was too difficult for a large ship to turn around. Previously, they only knew that large ships had higher combat effectiveness. After all, they had more artillery on them and could cause great damage to the enemy. However, judging from the current situation, if a group of small boats were mobilized, the effect might be better.
Take Ding Jiayong's flagship for example. It takes more than ten minutes to turn around. Just now, only a small part of the two ships were on fire, but now it has spread to one third of the area.
The smallest warship of the Tang Dynasty Navy was only more than 20 meters long, with only two floors on top, and only ten guns on one side of the battery. If they had used such small warships, they would definitely not be in such a mess today. Of course, we did not guess that the Fuso people would use this method.
Under Ding Jiayong's command, many sailors threw away their remaining belongings and quickly jumped into the water.
The Tang Dynasty Navy was very strict in recruiting soldiers. The most important requirement was that you must be able to swim. In this day and age, if you can't swim, then you'd better not work on the ship.
After these people jumped into the water, they swam away desperately. Ding Jiayong also asked his men to throw down ropes. This was something they had trained for in normal times, but everyone thought it was unnecessary. Is there anyone who can sink our Tang Dynasty navy warships?
Seeing that Ding Jiayong had started to rescue people, the other naval warships were not idle either. Although they did not dare to fight back, they dared to carry out covering bombardment all around. We have enough artillery, no matter how scattered you are, we can stop you.
People are afraid. Although they all want to rush to Ding Jiayong's side, the artillery formed an invisible barrier between them and Ding Jiayong's ship. If they want to rush up, they will probably risk the ship being destroyed and people dying.
There are some people who are not afraid of death and dare to rush forward, but the marines on Ding Jiayong's ship are not vegetarians either. Dozens of soldiers are holding muskets in their hands. As long as you enter the shooting range of the muskets, you will be named one by one.
There were more than 400 people on the two warships, but only more than 100 brothers escaped. The rest could not escape at all because the fire had engulfed the entire ship.
Ding Jiayong punched the railing on the ship hard, then ordered his flagship to hoist full sails and distance itself from these Fuso boats.
"Hit me hard."
When the distance between them was widened, Ding Jiayong immediately ordered the warship to turn sideways and fire at the Fuso people with maximum lethality.
In fact, these people from Fuso have now realized that it is impossible for them to rush up now. Their only chance is the surprise attack just now. Unfortunately, only two large ships were burned. Ding Jiayong brought a total of nine large ships, which is a very good result.
However, the price they paid was also very high. More than one hundred small boats were sunk. But compared with the losses of the Tang Dynasty Navy, they made a profit.
Since the establishment of the Tang Dynasty Navy, no warship has been sunk in the war. Except for one ship that ran aground when entering the bay, they have not even suffered any losses in Fuso. Now they were burned down all of a sudden, with two large ships and more than 300 brothers on board. Ding Jiayong felt very aggrieved.
The remaining brothers were also very angry. It’s not that we are not capable, but we simply did not expect you to adopt such tactics. So when the warships were re-formed, they left their sides to these Fuso people and used the most intense artillery fire to commemorate our deceased brothers.
These Fuso guys now saw that they were unable to attack, and they all wanted to stay alive. In addition, the order to retreat had been received from the shore, so these people paddled desperately to another place.
But you ran too far forward just now. Even if you want to escape now, it won’t be that easy.
The Tang Dynasty Navy's warships were faster than theirs, and now they had lost so many brothers, so they quickly approached and sank these small boats one by one with the flintlock rifles on the ships.
As for the cannons on the ship, they certainly have a more important role, which is to bombard all the facilities on the shore.
The reason why so many suicides were dispatched just now was that the ship did not want the warships of the Tang Dynasty Navy to get too close. If the range was not enough, then the buildings on the shore would be safe. Now that the warships of the Tang Dynasty Navy were coming, the people on the land were instantly blown into chaos.
When the two princes started their rebellion, they had already instructed their subordinates to send all important items on the coast to the inland, otherwise, like in Fukuoka and Nagasaki, they would most likely be taken away directly by the Tang Dynasty navy.
But some things can be transported away, and some things cannot be transported away. Many dignitaries built their courtyards on the seaside, and no one wanted to go inland, so at this moment their courtyards turned into a sea of fire.
But compared with Fukuoka and Nagasaki, their losses here were the smallest. Ding Jiayong could also see from the boat that there were not many people on the shore. If it were in Fukuoka, who knows how many people would have been killed in the bombing.
"General, look over there, it looks like a government office."
The observers on the ship quickly found the target. There was a clearly different house not far away. This should be the official residence of a certain big boss.
