0363 Artillery counter-artillery
When the four ships were within range of the Tiger Cannon, the gunners braved the guns to fail to reach the gun position and fired shotguns at the ship. Four ships, four guns, and two or three hundred pieces of lead flew towards the ship, and although it was said that the design of the ship was conducive to sheltering the personnel, it could not prevent the lead from coming from all directions. Anyone who was exposed on the deck was shot. Even the launch port was filled with a lot of lead, and the screams rang out!
At this time, the ship's heavy artillery was powerful at a distance of more than 50 paces! A big hole was made directly in the side of their ship! The sea rushed in. Now everyone knew the ship was finished. But the Japanese sailors inside are still desperately fighting back. Seeing this, the other three ships turned to the side and bombarded them with heavy artillery.
After two rounds, the ship was completely silent. The ship was already making a "creaking" sound under the weight of the sea. When the four ships saw that each other was finished, they circled him in two circles. Confirming that he was doomed to sink, he turned and ran towards the port.
On the way to the bay, the Jiaozhou took the lead. All the sails were raised, and the speed of the ship was raised to the maximum. Because Wu Yizhou was worried that some cannon sound on the sea would alarm the fleet inside. If the boats inside rush out, they really can't stop them alone.
In fact, he was overly concerned. At this time, most of the Japanese sailors rested on the shore. After all, the time for the shift has not yet come. So by the time they heard the sound of cannon fire coming from the sea, it was too late to hurry to the dock.
When the head of the house arrived at the bay, a gate boat slowly appeared. Wu Yizhou immediately shouted: "Turn right!" Port artillery ready! The mainsail is lowered by two blocks! ”
The helmsman struck the rudder desperately. The hull of the ship made a beautiful arc on the sea, exposing the port side while the speed of the ship also decreased. At this time, the sailors on the artillery deck also saw the newly emerging ship, and the gunners immediately moved their guns to aim at each other. With the sound of a bell, the artillery was fired. 22 shells were fired at the ship! A total of 14 shells concentrated on the opposing side. In an instant, the ship that had been hit was flying with sawdust, and the sailors were screaming.
The Jiaozhou was followed by the Zhucheng, and he also turned the hull along the track of the Jiaozhou, revealing the firing boundary on the port side. A round of artillery fire followed. The Zhucheng was well prepared, and its luck was better. 22 out of 17 shells! The third ship, naturally, was concocted in the same way. In just one minute, the ship was hit by more than forty shells! As a result, the ship simply disintegrated!
The unfortunate ship was followed by two closed ships. The two ships were more aggressive, and actually tried to go around the sides of the dismantled ship. At this time, the Jiaozhou had lowered all its sails, and now it was just gliding slowly, so the accuracy of the shelling had improved a lot. So the plan was unceremoniously aimed at one of the ships and fired fiercely. The other ships that followed the Jiaozhou also lowered their sails to stabilize the hull and began shelling the other ship. Under the blows of these three ships in turn, those two ships were beaten extremely miserably. The building and hull are full of big holes!
The ship shelled by the Jiaozhou may be an old ship, and its upper box structure was actually knocked down by a wall panel! The sailors who spotted the fighter immediately fired a round of shotshots inside, all of which went through the gap! Immediately there was a loud scream inside the ship, and then it was silent!
Another ship was also unlucky. Although its superstructure was not broken, in the panic he crashed into the cliff wall and stuck directly on it. Now, three ships are blocking the channel! The few ships in the back could only stare dryly, and they couldn't rush out at all!
The sailors on the three ships cheered and began shelling the ships, leaving the three broken ships blocking the channel. Now the sub-task is completely completed. At this point, the fleet of the Shimazu family was completely blocked in the bay of the port, and it had completely become a turtle in an urn.
Back to the battlefield of land warfare. The Japanese artillerymen pushed the two cannons forward vigorously. But they did not know that by the time they were about to reach the gun position, they were already within range of the barracks artillery. It was only because Liu Pei was afraid that the two guns would be dragged back, so he did not order the shelling.
Birshan, sitting there for a long time, feeling more and more wrong. Ever since he landed on this island, he felt that everything was not going well. Today his uncomfortable feeling reached its peak! In particular, his opponent actually allowed them to build gun emplacements slowly, which made him very incomprehensible. He had already sent a number of iron gunners to follow behind the artillery and prepare for cover. But there was no movement on the other side. Hisataka Kayama didn't believe that the person on the other side was a fool. He also knew that there was artillery on the other side. Last night's rounds of artillery made him feel so sick! But why don't you fire that on the other side?
Hisashika's eyebrows are tightly squeezed together! This can't be blamed on Hisataka Kashiyama for not understanding the situation. During the war in the Japanese Kingdom, there were very few artillery, so everyone was in awe of artillery. This leads to the fact that there is no concept of artillery counter-artillery.
At this time, the accuracy of the smoothbore gun was even more critical, and it did not have the conditions for artillery and anti-artillery at all. As far as smoothbore guns are concerned, no matter how many shots a smoothbore gun takes, I can responsibly claim that no two shells will land on the same spot. So artillery counter-artillery became a joke.
It was only a few decades later, with the improvement of smelting technology, that heavy artillery with a longer barrel was invented in order to counter artillery. Since then, people have had the ability to counter artillery artillery. So at this time, Kayama Hidaka didn't know that those two artillery pieces had been sent to the point of no return by him.
Liu Pei kept staring at the two cannons. As he watched the Japanese gunners begin to hold their guns to the ground, he knew the time had come. At this time, it was even more difficult for the artillery to get out of place, so they had to stay there and fire.
Liu Pei instructed: "Tell the watchtowers on both sides to open fire and destroy these two cannons." ”
After the order was passed out,. The fences of the two tall watchtowers on either side of the camp were suddenly pushed open, revealing two artillery pieces. These two guns are not smoothbore guns, but hexagonal cannons specially prepared by Liu Pei! The accuracy of the hexagonal cannon is much higher than that of the smoothbore gun. It is a transitional type between smoothbore guns and rifled guns, and has been used on the battlefield for more than half a century. Even it was used a lot in the American Civil War.
When Kayama Hisaka saw two cannons launched in the watchtowers on both sides, he couldn't help but be surprised. But he forced himself to hold back. He estimated that his army was out of range of artillery and would have no losses. As for those two cannons, Hisakama had no concept in his mind that they would be hit. After all, at such a distance, in terms of the accuracy of the artillery he knew, it was indeed impossible to hit.
The gunners of the two guns were still desperately reinforcing their positions, unaware that two guns were already being aimed at them. When they were busy, they heard two cannon shots, "boom, boom", which startled them!
They immediately looked up and spotted the white smoke from the guns fired from the watchtowers on both sides. But they didn't care, they didn't think they would be hit. When the shells landed a dozen paces away from them, stirring up a large column of earth, they laughed at the opposing gunners.
In their minds, it was no problem for artillery to hit such a big target as the city wall. But it's too hard to hit a certain point. So they lowered their heads and continued to reinforce the gun emplacement.
Moments later, a second round of artillery rang out. This time they felt something was wrong! Because the shells fell only a few steps away from them. And the third shell landed even closer, only two or three paces away from them!
Now the gunners are panicking! But under the suppression of military law, they did not dare to run away. It was only possible to continue to strengthen the gun emplacements. By this time, the gun emplacements had been reinforced. They fired out almost simultaneously with the artillery on the wall. The shells they fired hit the bottom of the wall, and the wall was fine after a moment of panic. If the opponent's artillery still misses them, it still falls within a range of two or three steps, stirring up a large column of earth!