Liu Pei has been keeping an eye on the position of the two strategic lines on the sea in the shipyard, and when the battle lines of the two sides are parallel again, Liu Pei knows that the time is up, and he can finally start to attack!

He shouted and passed the order: "Raise the flag of full fire!" Command the shelling to fire! ”

A staff officer shouted excitedly, shook off the herald and went to deliver the order himself. Soon, a flag with a red explosion pattern rose from the mast of Liu Pei's flagship. When all the ships saw this flag, the captains gave the same order: "Tear down the enclosures of the bow and stern gun emplacements, and the bombarders will fire with all their might!" ”

Liu Pei's flagship, the Shandong, was the first to receive the order, and the sailors and gunners cheered and rushed from the cabin to the bow and stern gun emplacements. The first to arrive at the gun emplacement were the soldiers at the stern gun emplacement. They slammed the reinforced steel bars on the perimeter of the gun emplacement with their axes, and when the steel bars hit the ground, the upper enclosure of the gun emplacements fell down in three pieces. It was lifted by the sailors and thrown into the sea.

Originally, the high fence was made up of two parts. The enclosure below is the real emplacement enclosure, which is to protect the gunners and the artillery. And the upper layer of the fence is simply to cover the gun position and prevent people from discovering the bombardment.

As soon as the gun emplacement was opened, the extremely ugly short-barreled bombardment gun inside the turret was revealed! When the short-barreled bombardment was demonstrated, Song Ke and the others were stunned by surprise! The telescope in Song Ke's hand was almost thrown away! He stared at the thick caliber of the bombardment cannon with his binoculars and muttered, "Oh God! How many shells are they going to fire? Is it 200 pounds or 300 pounds? ”

In an instant, he had already made up his battleship in his brain, and was smashed into two pieces by a large iron ball that fell from the sky! But Song Ke immediately overturned his cranky thoughts! In Song Ke's cognition, such a huge iron ball cannot be pushed by a small amount of gunpowder! And if the gunpowder is too much loaded, the only result of that cannon is to explode!

But he still wondered what the other party wanted to do with this cannon? Is it a shotgun that fires a super-dense one? Song Ke thinks it's unlikely! But Song Ke is convinced that it is a useful weapon! Because Song Ke knows that no one will

Stupid enough to put a useless weapon on a warship.

As soon as the fence was opened, a group of sailors surrounded and began to operate the cannon. Together, the two sailors lifted a large wool brush, reached into the chamber of the gun, pounded it vigorously, and then spun it and pulled it out. As soon as they left the muzzle, the two gunners took two gunpowder packets wrapped in silk from the fat iron box of the gun position and stuffed them into the muzzle in turn.

After they pushed away, two more soldiers rushed up and pushed the gunpowder bag to the bottom of the barrel with a huge ram. As soon as they drew their rams, two soldiers placed a cannonball larger than a human head in the muzzle.

Then another soldier rushed up and poked a thick awl in his hand into a protruding wooden fuse on the cannonball, and vigorously widened the hole. When he pulled out the awl strap, it was stained with gunpowder, and then quickly dodged away. The two soldiers holding the push rod stepped forward again, pushed the shell hard until the chamber of the gun was extended, and then pulled out the support rod and escaped.

By this time, the gunner behind the gun position had already pierced the gun's fire door with a sharp cone, and was stirring vigorously to ensure that the gunpowder bag was pierced. Then a fuse is inserted inside. As soon as he finished this whole set of actions, the gun commander next to the gun had already judged that the gun had been loaded, and immediately shouted loudly: "Fire!" ”

The gunner immediately pressed the fire medium in his hand to the fuse. The fuse was filled with instant gunpowder and burned extremely quickly! In the blink of an eye, the fuse burned deep into the chamber of the gun! Just listen to the loud "boom"! A huge spherical shell flew out of the barrel with gunsmoke and flew straight towards the enemy ship!

At the same time as the stern gun position was the first to fire, the bombardment gun at the bow gun position also followed suit! There were two loud "boom, boom" sounds, and two huge flowering shells flew off the cannon chamber for the first time in a naval battle!

At this moment, Song Ke was almost completely stunned! He really didn't expect that the other party would really launch such a big cannonball! This is a complete violation of the knowledge he has been exposed to!

Song Ke stared at the two huge cannonballs, which seemed to be flying very slowly, as if he could reach out and shoot them. But in fact, the flowering bomb flew very fast, passing through two ships in the blink of an eye

The distance between more than 100 meters.

As a result, a flowering bomb hit the rear side of the Songk flagship, the Furious, with a loud "bang"! Then it fell into the sea and did not explode. And another flowering shell passed through the gap between the foremast and the mainmast, and flew past the battleship into the distance! After flying a long distance, explode close to the surface of the sea!

The loud bang scared Song Ke all over! It was the first time he had seen an exploding artillery shell! Even Captain Gaston beside him turned blue with fright!

This is a normal reaction of a normal person when he sees something he or she does not understand. It's not just Captain Songk and Gaston. The sailors on the entire flagship Furious who saw this scene took a deep breath, and then spit out this breath full of luck! The impact of this scene on their senses was too great!

And on the flagship, Liu Pei and the sailors let out a sigh of regret. Da Ming saw it, not to mention whether it was accurate or not, but the wooden letter tube on the shell was obviously longer. However, everyone was not discouraged, because it was normal for this to happen when the artillery was fired for the first time.

While everyone was lamenting, the gunner on the stern battery was cursing in a tidal wave of foul language for the gunner who had installed a wooden tube for the flowering shell. Don't look at the young age of the artillery commander, but he is in the barracks all day long, how can he not be full of swearing!

The scolded soldier was so angry that his face was flushed, but he didn't talk back! But you could still see the anger in his eyes. The others were angry, but the movements of their hands were still very light. He lightly stuffed the newly set letter tube into the cannonball, and immediately stepped back quickly, making room for the other sailors to carry the cannonballs. Then he yelled at the cannon commander: "If there is a problem again this time, let people cut my birds!" ”

The soldiers on the fort laughed, but the movement of their hands never stopped. After more than ten seconds, the second round of firing from the artillery was ready. The artillery commander shouted, and the bombardment was fired again!

This time the sound of the two guns almost overlapped into one! Coupled with the salvo of the gunners that happened to catch up, the sound of the shelling was extremely grand!