Chapter 32 The power of the artillery on the river
There was a flotilla of the Jianghuai Army in front and behind, and Li Qin was shocked by Du Fuwei's reaction and layout. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Obviously, the other party is killing himself here.
For the sake of a small army head to lay down such a killing formation? Did Du Fuwei really have such a heart for soldiers?
Li Qin felt strange.
However, the focus now is not on why Duvowe did this, but on how he can break through Duvoway's siege.
"Can you rush through?" Li asked solemnly.
"It's too close, and we're not in the right direction right now." Nangong Haizhu shook her head uncomfortably.
"Then get ready for battle!" Li Qin thought about it for a while and made a decisive decision.
"But, can this battleship really defeat the other party!" Nangong Haizhu didn't have much confidence in his battleship.
After all, these warships were newly transformed by Li Qin, and except for the shelves of the ships, everything else has changed greatly, and even the way of fighting is different. Although these people have been training according to the latest combat manual for about a month, it is just how many skills they can practice in this month, which also needs to be a question mark.
Newcomers, new ships, chasing ducks on the shelves, no wonder Nangong Haizhu has no confidence. At the beginning of receiving the order, he only thought about bringing his general back, which would have been an easy thing, and he did not think of a big battle with the enemy on the river.
Especially on the opposite side, the enemy is the famous Duvoway.
"Don't worry, everything is just according to the training!" Li Qin gently patted him on the shoulder and persuaded him to rest assured.
But he is a veteran of sailing, where can he be so easily at ease: "My lord, don't think about it?" ”
"What to consider? Surrender? Li Qin's voice became stern: "Dare to fight, be able to fight is what I have always asked of you." Cowardice before fighting, can't you...... This is the first time, I allow you to make mistakes, but then, if you continue this attitude, I will have to enforce military law. ”
"Ah...... Be! My lord! Nangong Haizhu couldn't help but be smart, as if he understood the meaning of this military law, and quickly changed his words and assured Li Qin.
The two of them were talking, when they suddenly heard a soft whistle from a distance behind them, and then a high-pitched voice sounded in everyone's ears: "Ahead is the green corpse of Jian Fu Yuwen?" Duvowe is courteous here! Your Excellency has experienced Yang on the way, why don't you have a meeting with Fuwei? If I let my friends in the rivers and lakes know, I'm afraid they will laugh at me for being rude. Please stop for a while, can Rong Fuwei set up a banquet to receive you? ”
The person who spoke was still two miles away, but the voice was clear as if it were whispering in people's ears. Just these words show the profound skill of the person who speaks.
Du Fuwei's words were heard, and everyone in the cabin also understood that this was an enemy, and they hurriedly came out of the cabin and met Li Qin, who was also running to the stern. In the round between the two sides, Fu Junwu was surprised to say her feelings about Du Fuwei: "It's so strong! This person is Du Fuwei in his sleeve? ”
"He is the undefeated boss of the underworld for decades, how can he not be strong!" Li Qin felt that it was a matter of course that Du Fuwei had such a standard, and there was nothing surprising about it.
"And how is he better than you?" Fu Jun's beautiful eyes turned and looked at Li Qin.
Her voice is cold, but there is a charm in her gestures, which has a hint of heroism and a little weakness, exuding amazing attraction.
"It feels pretty much the same!" Li Qin said calmly.
When he said this, others were not surprised, but Li Jing secretly muttered in his heart: "Is this too exaggerated?" Du Fuwei is a well-known underworld overlord for thirty years, and you think you are a grandmaster at such a young age...... It's also too arrogant. ”
Li Jing had never seen Li Qin's demeanor of going all out, and he didn't know what Li Qin's martial arts were. Although he also thought that Li Qin's kung fu should be good, he did not think that Li Qin had the level of a grandmaster.
Well, he just thinks Li Qin is blowing.
"Look at your braggadocio now, wait until you meet Duvoway, I think you'll know that Duvowe will let you know what is powerful." Li Jing secretly thought to himself in his heart.
He was forcibly left by Li Qin, and he was naturally a little dissatisfied with Li Qin in his heart, and at this time, seeing Li Qin say such a big thing, he wanted Li Qin to suffer a little bit and let him know what the sky is high and thick.
Therefore, Li Jing did not speak.
Li Jing did not dissuade Li Qin, so Li Qin still came according to his own temperament.
At that moment, Li Qin put the zombie-like mask on his face, borrowed an iron sword from the sergeant on the ship, weighed it casually, and then galloped towards the back of the warship.
At this moment, he returned to the image of the "green corpse guest" that Li Jing had seen before, and Du Fuwei's mouth.
Green corpses?
Li Qin didn't like this nickname.
However, everyone in the rivers and lakes said so, and Li Qin couldn't reverse their rumors at once.
Fortunately, Li Qin also knew that this identity was just a doppelganger of himself, and when he needed something, he would naturally break out with another nickname, so this nickname was almost forgotten.
When he came to the stern, Li Qin saw ten brisk ships in the distant sky, with three bamboo sails open, flowing down the river from the upstream, their sharp upturned bows ploughing the undulating river and breaking the white spray.
The fighting ship was enlarged in Li Qin's eyes at a speed visible to the naked eye.
In a matter of moments, they were less than two miles away from Li Qin.
At this time, Li Qin's fleet turned the end of the ship sideways like a completely different kind of water warfare, and aimed its softest belly at Duvoway.
"Is this going to be a water war? Although I am not very proficient in water warfare, I also know that the most important thing in water warfare is that the bow of the ship is forced against the ground. Li Jing shook his head again in his heart.
He felt more and more that Li Qin might have a good level of martial arts, but his ability to command battles was too poor.
"Such a person also wants to dominate the world, which is really ......" He thinks it is better for him to find a way to leave as soon as possible.
Under Li Jing, Du Fuwei's fleet was closer to this side. The people on their boat had already seen the inferior water battle array on Li Qin's side, and they immediately laughed, and the noisy and sharp laughter came from afar, making Xu Ziling and Kou Zhong on the boat extremely puzzled.
"What the hell are they laughing at?" Xu Ziling was puzzled.
"They're laughing at your master for not knowing how to fight water." Li Jing said calmly: "Facing the enemy with the belly of a ship is a taboo in water warfare. ”
"Really?" Kou Zhong looked at Li Qin's face as hard as a rock in disbelief, and asked him in a low voice, "Master, something seems wrong." ”
"Rest assured, they'll soon find out." Li Qin replied calmly.
He is still very confident in these warships that he has modified. Because he knew that under the strange and ordinary bodies of these warships, there were actually weapons far beyond the imagination of people in this era - artillery.
These were sub-cannons of the 15th-16th centuries. In the history known to Li Qin, it was called the Buddha Lang Ji by the Chinese people. Their prototype was an army gun made of pig iron or bronze, which was lightweight, had low recoil, and had a fast rate of fire, with the only drawback being that it was too powerful and too close.
Li Qin knew that the main reason for their short range was because of the airtightness between the child gun and the mother, so Li Qin borrowed a large number of machine tools and materials from later generations to transform them, and engraved the rifle, which barely solved this headache. In the end, the last steel in the steel mill was used to create this batch of experimental 100 500-pound guns.
Li Qin once tested these cannons, and found that they were able to project a long projectile of about 2 catties to a distance of about two miles, causing considerable damage to the stone city wall with a thickness of about three feet.
Such power and range were still insufficient to deal with the tall walls of this world, but as the initial artillery experiment, Li Qin felt that it was still good enough to equip his fleet with emergency equipment.
You must know that in the water warfare of this era, the main weapons are still light weapons with a range of less than 200 meters, such as bows and crossbows.
Although some large ships have begun to be equipped with small trebuchets, bed crossbows, etc. However, since trebuchets and bed crossbows at this time were simple human machines, and it took a lot of soldiers to control them, even large warships could not be equipped with many formations.
Moreover, the range of trebuchets and bed crossbows that can be placed on the ship is only about 400 meters. This kind of range is naturally poor for artillery.
These are all known to Li Qin himself. That's why he has such confidence in his warship.
He was sure that after the five warships on his side opened horizontally and fired a salvo at the opposite side, they would definitely be able to give those on the opposite side a hard taste.
"Despite the disparity in forces, we may be able to annihilate them." Li Qin thought so.
For Li Qin's fan-like self-confidence, the people around him don't understand.
Fu Junwu and Li Jing didn't think about persuading Li Qin for their own purposes, while Xu Ziling and Kou Zhong had the idea of persuading Li Qin, but they opened their mouths and didn't know how to persuade them.
In desperation, they could only watch Li Qin's fleet run farther and farther down the wrong path.
Time passed little by little, and the formations of the two fleets gradually adjusted in the array.
The flotilla of the Jianghuai Army set up a sharp formation, trying to break through the thin defense line on Li Qin's side with five warships as the vanguard, cutting and encircling Li Qin's five warships.
On the other hand, the line formation on Li Qin's side was wandering and sailing, and he had no intention of changing the formation.
Soon, the distance between the two fleets quickly narrowed.
From two miles to one.
Everyone standing on the edge of the fence on the second floor of the ship's belly had already seen Du Fuwei who had assaulted and the Jianghuai soldiers behind him who were armed with strong bows and steel knives.
As a rebel army, what the Jianghuai army lacked most was not brave men with swords, but cavalry and archers, as well as more technical arms with professional skills: people who operated bed crossbows, people who operated trebuchets. These people were very few in the Jianghuai army, so none of the ten fighting ships that appeared in front of Li Qin tried to attack with the small trebuchets equipped on the ships.
This made Li Qin very relieved to put Du Fuwei closer.
It's a mile......
It's 400 meters......
Three hundred meters......
At such a "distant" distance, the warship under Li Qin finally opened fire.
The steel barrels that poked their heads out of the ship's guntop windows roared like thunder. Clouds of white smoke rose from the front of the barrels, obscuring the flickering light of the fire.
In the roar, a cannon shot flew out of its chamber, and with a sharp roar, it crossed the water surface of 300 meters and fiercely drilled into the bodies of several fighting ships in front of the Jianghuai Army's front and arrow formation.
For a moment, the hull of the ship shook, sawdust flew sideways, and the messy and hard wooden stubble turned into countless sharp steel knives and cut at the people on board. Wails, screams, bursts of red blood, and severed limbs soared in the air at the same time.
In just one round of firing, under the fire of 100 500-pound guns, three of the five Jianghuai fighting ships 300 meters away were beaten into shape, and became a wooden basin floating on the water.
"Damn, what kind of demon is this? How powerful it is......" Listening to the roar of thunder in his ears, he said in surprise as he watched Kou Zhong jump up and scream.
The sound and results of the first appearance of the artillery are astonishing.
Everyone on Li Qin's side who was watching, except for Kou Zhong, who roared like this, the rest were speechless.
Instead of being composed, they were too frightened to speak.
Li Jing and Fu Junwu stared at Li Qin tightly because of this.
"This guy actually has such power! This kind of power is not martial arts, but the damage it can cause is never under martial arts. If you hit such a weapon, I'm afraid that even the Great Grandmaster won't be able to stand it. It's horrifying. The same suspicion grew in the hearts of the two.
Immediately, according to the different origins and positions of the two, they turned into two different ideas of the same end.
"I have to stay with him and figure out what this weapon is. It would be nice if I could find a way to get the design and production plan of the relevant weapon from him. Fu Junwu bit her teeth lightly and secretly made up her mind.
"What if...... If a weapon like his can be built in large quantities, then it is not impossible for him to dominate the world. Perhaps, I should stay and see? Li Jing looked at Li Qin fixedly, secretly thinking about his future behavior.
With different considerations, at this moment, they all made the decision to stay with Li Qin and continue to observe.
Unlike Li Qin's side who was surprised and a little excited, the Jianghuai army that was shelled by Li Qin fell into a chaotic confusion.
After seeing the miserable appearance of their own warship after the thunder, they also thought that it was beyond human power, and they began to wonder if they had been punished by the gods.
"Your Excellency, are we going to retreat. The guy on the other side may have the protection of the gods. Gang, who had been blinded in one eye by the flying sawdust but was lucky to save his life, distorted his face and suggested to Duvoy, who had survived the artillery fire.
"Are you scared?" Duvowe stared at him coldly.
"How can such an enemy not be afraid!" Gang Shou sighed helplessly: "We can defeat the enemy, but it is impossible to defeat demons, monsters and immortals." ”
"Then they have to be really first-class gods and demons!" Du Fuwei said coldly, leaned down and picked up a few irregularly shaped planks from the ruins, and put them in his arms.
After that, he stepped forward.
"What do you want to do, Lord Sir?" The Tsunade was strange behind him.
"Capture the thief and capture the king...... I can't do it, the rumored green corpse on the rivers and lakes is the so-called gods and demons. As he spoke, he flew up from the battling ship with the damaged bow, and relied on the planks thrown forward as a node to use the force to breathe, and advanced towards Li Qin's side.
Since you can't take Li Qin by relying on the fleet, then rely on yourself!
As a grandmaster, Du Fuwei is still very confident in his martial arts.
Take down the Green Corpse and use it as a threat to seize control of these warships, and then obtain the mysteries.
This is Duvoy's current tactic.
He was sure that if he could get to the bow of the ship, he would be able to do something.
"But...... What should we do, Lord Steward? Duvowe was running, but the leader behind him was a little overwhelmed.
Is it advance or retreat? This still requires the new Liyang Governor to make a good decision.
So, he shouted.
"Think for yourself! I'll leave this matter to you. Du Fuwei ordered in a deep voice.
At this time, he was less than a hundred meters away from Li Qin's warship.
His eyes narrowed as a result, and a face with an ancient clumsy countenance exuded a murderous momentum.
His gaze at Li Qin matched that of Li Qin's gaze at him.
For a moment, the roar of countless swords exploded in the space that only the two of them could feel.
With just one glance, both of them were sure that the person opposite was indeed the great enemy they had seen in their lives.
"Actually a grandmaster?" The corners of Duvey's mouth curled into a playful smile.