Chapter 725 Artillery Attack on the Base Camp (Subscription Requested)
After the defeated army returned to the camp, Maodun quickly gave the order to pack up and prepare to move. However, the transfer of so many people and livestock obviously could not be completed in one day. Everyone had been on the run for several days, so they had to rest.
Maodun didn't care much about this. In his opinion, just dealing with prisoners of war and captured goods would be enough to keep the Han tribe busy for a while. No matter how fast they were, they couldn't catch up within two days. As for two days later, he would have already run away with his men.
In the base camp located by the lake, some of the men who escaped back rested in the tent, some chose to go out to graze, and some women and children were packing up their daily necessities at home to prepare for moving in advance. The worst were the families whose men died in the war. The women all covered their faces and cried, busy mourning their deceased husbands, but after crying and being tired, they still had to be busy packing or grazing. After all, life had to go on.
At dusk, the herdsmen who had gone out drove their cattle and sheep back home, drove all the livestock into the fence and locked them up, and then returned to the tent to prepare for food. They would set off tomorrow, which would be their last night here.
However, at this time, the five-masted gunboat drifting on the lake also began to set sail again.
"Commander Shu, why don't we go during the day, but go at night?"
Looking at the sails that had just been raised, the captain of the Fubo asked in confusion.
"Are you stupid? Let me ask you, what is our goal this time?" Shu Da asked back in a bad mood. He really felt that the captain chosen by the leader was not very smart.
"A herdsman from Maodun's base camp?"
The captain was scolded by Shu Da, but he was not annoyed. He was indeed transferred from a transport ship and did not know much about war. But now that the leader has made him the captain of a warship, it is better to learn more as soon as possible, otherwise who knows when the leader will replace him.
This is an opportunity. As long as he can grasp it well, with the experience of being the captain of the first naval flagship of the Han tribe,
he will be able to rise to prominence in the near future. So as long as he can learn something useful, he doesn't care even if he is scolded.
"Then let me ask you again, will the herdsmen stay at home during the day?" Rat asked again.
"Oh - I understand. Commander Shu means that the herdsmen are not at home during the day. If we go there, we will only expose our targets in advance. So we have to wait until night, when the cattle and sheep enter the pen and the people return home, and then we can quietly go over and catch them all in one fell swoop. The command is really amazing!" The captain praised with sudden enlightenment.
"Okay, stop flattering me. Go and arrange the staff now and prepare to detect the depth of the shore. This time we have to get as close to the shore as possible, but we can't let the ship run aground. Only in this way can we play the greatest advantage of the artillery range and expand the results of the battle as much as possible. Do a good job, and your contribution will be indispensable." Rat arranged again.
"Yes, Commander, rest assured, we will complete the mission."
The Fubo was speeding on the lake, from dusk to sunset. When it was completely dark, it was almost seven or eight in the evening.
The big ship stopped a few kilometers away from the shore, and then released several small boats, allowing the sailors to paddle carefully to the shore.
The small boats quietly approached the lake shore under the cover of reeds in the shallow waters, and then the sailors released plumb bobs to measure the water depth. After finding out that there was enough area for the big ship to move, they inserted bamboo poles along the shallow waters, tied ropes on them, and finally hung several calcium carbide lamps on them as reference points to prevent the big ship from getting too close to the shore and being forced to run aground.
The deep water mark was more than 300 meters away from the shore, and the herdsmen's tents could not be close to the shore, so the herdsmen on the shore could not distinguish the lights with their naked eyes, but this could not be hidden from the sheepdogs who were always guarding the sheepfold. Not long after the calcium carbide lamp was hung, a sheepdog ran to the shore to sniff around and barked at the lake a few times, but it did not attract the attention of the herdsmen.
The small boat that had just measured the depth of the water also rowed towards the direction where the big ship was moored, but they did not get on the boat, but led the big ship to the shore with a lamp below.
The sails that were not fully opened pushed the big ship forward slowly, found the right angle and turned, and finally paralleled the hull to the shore, slowly approaching the chandeliers hanging on the water.
In the dark night, a huge monster suddenly approached Maodun's base camp, and the sheepdogs, who were already suspicious, barked at the lake.
The herdsmen in the camp were finally alarmed. They rushed out of their tents with bows and arrows and spears. After several days of continuous escape, they were really afraid that the Han tribe would launch another surprise attack. However, when they saw the direction of the sheepdog's alert, they frowned again.
The lake? What's on the lake?
The herdsmen who had experienced the Han tribe's surprise attack from the water were immediately panicked. Some immediately held torches and shouted in the camp for warnings, and some even blew the horns used for wartime alarms.
For a moment, the whole camp was in chaos.
"Oh no, the Han army is coming from the lake."
Woo woo woo——————
Mao Dun was awakened immediately, and quickly picked up a captured steel knife beside him, lifted the curtain of the tent and asked loudly, "What happened? The Han tribe is coming?"
"Chief, run quickly, the Han tribe is coming from the water."
"What did you say?! Did you see their boats?"
"No, no, I didn't see it."
"Then why are you yelling?" Mao Dun kicked the man in anger.
"That's what they all said." The man felt wronged after being kicked down, and couldn't help but defend himself.
Mao Dun ignored him, quickly put on his clothes, took his weapons, asked someone to lead his horse, and then asked his confidant to go to the shore to see the situation.
The Fu Bo warship floating on the lake was also pitch black, and there was no light on it, for fear that it would be discovered in advance by the herdsmen on the shore, but they still underestimated those loyal sheepdogs.
When the ship was still far from the shore, Shu Da had already noticed the chaos on the shore. He knew that he must have been exposed, so he simply stopped hiding and had the lights turned on. He turned the bow to the south and slowly sailed parallel to the shore. At the same time, he opened all the portholes on the right and pushed all 60 guns to the ready position.
The ammunition was loaded in advance, so that it could fire with maximum firepower at the moment of arrival, and strive to achieve the greatest results before the enemy could react.
The next moment, with Shu Da's order on the command platform on the stern, the three gun decks below fired one after another.
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