"The secret of war lies in the attention to detail."

Although Hu Shoujin was not from the navy, he fully grasped the details of the battlefield, and while firing with a rifle, the "flying hook" that was pulling the boat was cut off, but he did not leave the shore immediately, but used the boat as a bait to lure the other party to attack.

Bait.

In fact, they came to help Nanjing this time. Although he came with the determination to die, it does not mean that he will be sent to die in vain. So they have a lot of plans, all of which revolve around one core – how to kill the enemy to the maximum!

Give full play to the advantages of weapons and equipment, of course, one of them. However, simply giving full play to the advantages in weapons and equipment is not the best choice.

The best thing to do is to dig a "trap" with your own weaponry and let the enemy run headlong into it. Only in this way can you get the most out of your enemies in this trap.

"There are few Jiannu people, and there is no problem for us to kill and injure 8,000 people, this is impossible to break the bones. But Jiannu is different, if they kill and injure thousands of people, it will really hurt their muscles and bones. So the purpose of our battle is to break their bones. ”

On the way out of Yangzhou, Chen Junmen once said so. This is not new, the prince has told them more than once - the purpose of war is to kill and injure the enemy to the maximum, and only by killing and injuring the enemy and saving oneself can one win the war.

Kill!

For those aggressors, the more you kill. The more afraid they become, the more they feel that invasion is a thing that outweighs the loss, they will naturally not dare to invade again.

In fact, they are the same now, as long as those Jiannu pay more casualties than they can bear. Naturally, they would retreat, after all, Jiannu's forces were very limited, and it was absolutely impossible for them to fight only one Nanjing at the cost of losing their troops under the city of Nanjing.

So dig a trap for them to jump and kill them as much as you can! When they couldn't bear it anymore, they naturally withdrew.

When Jiannu approached in front of him, he ordered the boat to leave a little, but it was not much, that is, two or three feet away, but the distance of five or six feet made Jiannu, who rushed to the river, dumbfounded.

"This ......"

Darhan stared at the Ming warship six feet away, this distance, he couldn't jump over, he couldn't rush over, and there was a river a few feet away in the middle......

Even before he was dumbfounded, he saw the mouth of the black hole on the opposite side, and the hideous-looking Ming army behind the mouth, and the next moment, a cloud of white smoke gushed out from the muzzle of the gun, and before the lead flew, he could even feel the smoke coming from his face, which was so close that when his head was hit by a bullet, the people on the boat could even hear a "poof", like the sound of a ripe watermelon being shattered by a fierce punch......

For a time, the bank became a slaughterhouse, and the Qing troops who rushed to the river completely became targets, out of reach, and they just stunned there and let the bullets fall on their bodies, and when they fell, the crimson blood flowed down the river bank to the river, dyeing the river red......

Crimson blood spread rapidly along the river's edge.

In the blink of an eye, half of the water surface was dyed red.

"Okay, the time has passed, let's withdraw......"

As soon as Hu Shoujin's words fell, a cannon suddenly sounded in his ears, followed by a "whoosh" sound, and the cannonball whistled past his neighborhood and flew into the distance.

"Be careful!"

At this time, there was another burst of cannons, one after another, and the continuous cannons came from a distance, and Jiannu's artillery fired! Bayi Chinese Network

It was not the red-coated cannon that fired the cannon, but the Franc machine gun, accompanied by a cloud of white smoke in the distance, dozens of shells hit the Ming warships on the river against the water, and the missed shells hit the river column after column.

Although most of these shells smashed into the boiling river, on the surface of the river, a column of water was punched on the river, but there were still a few of them, but fortunately smashed on the bulwark of the boat, and immediately, the three-inch thick gunwale was pierced, so that the sawdust splashed, and a fist-sized hole was blasted in the side of the ship's parapet, and the soldiers behind the wall were directly penetrated through the chest, and then fell down heavily......

"Fire, fire, send these Ming dogs to the river to feed the fish......"

Cao Eryu shouted loudly and gave orders, although the powerful red-coated cannon had not yet been pushed to the right gun position, he still commanded the Franc gunners, and returned fire with a light and nimble Franc machine, and the gunners put their torches against the Franc cannon on the bench and ignited the fuse.

Despite its modest power, the Franc cannon had a high rate of fire, and with each shelling, several huge iron projectiles erupted from the muzzles, flying hundreds of paces and making huge splashes on the surface of the river. Occasionally, some projectiles would hit the ship's gunwale, making fist-sized holes in the gunwale, and whenever the shells broke through the side parapet, they would always bring up countless broken flesh, and even some shells would hit the waterline impartially, opening a fist-sized hole in the ship's side. The moment the icy river water poured into the cabin, the soldiers in the cabin shouted to block the influx of river water with tarpaulins, wooden stoppers, slats, and iron nails.

When the Qing army began to fight back, the boat, driven by the boatman's support, was already heading towards the river, gradually getting farther and farther away. When the fleet withdrew, Cao Eryu still commanded the artillery battalion to bombard the Ming warships in the river with the Franc machine, but because the power of the Franc machine was small, it did not bring fatal damage to the warship.

And in this process, the Ming army does not seem to fight back at all...... It's not that I don't want to pay it back, but because the mortar on the bow of the ship can only be aimed at the front, because of the structural strength, these can't be equipped with artillery on the side of the requisitioned Cao ship in Yangzhou, even if the recoil is small, the nine-pound mountain howitzer can't do it.

However, while the flotilla withdrew from the estuary, the gunboats in the river still kept their bows aimed at the shore, and seeing that Jiannu had begun to return fire, Hu Shoujin ordered the gunboats in the river to cover through the flag.

However, shelling targets on the shore in the middle of the river itself requires a high degree of skill, coupled with the unique curved trajectory of the mortar artillery, which makes its accuracy very poor, even if the gunboats in the river try to adjust the direction, but the shells they fired did not bring much loss to the Dongyu artillery on the shore, but the exploding grenade still killed and injured many Qing troops on the shore. But as the fleet needed to stay at a distance of more than a hundred zhang from the shore, most of the time, those shells fell outside the East Infantry team.

After seeing this scene from the telescope, Hu Shoujin thought about it and asked loudly.

"Sun Zhigang, can you shoot the shell farther?"

The general's order made Sun Zhigang answer without thinking.

"Okay, double the gunpowder and you can increase the range to about 1500 meters! However, in this case, the accuracy will become worse, and the flight time of the shell will not be certain, the fuse timing will be set longer, and the life of the barrel will be ......."

For Sun Zhigang's explanation, apart from the range, there is nothing that Sun Zhigang is interested in.

Three miles of range!

Observing the target on the shore through the telescope, silently estimating the distance in his heart, Hu Shoujin said.

"Inform the fleet, double the gunpowder! Just hit the shore! ”

How many can you hit?

Hu Shoujin didn't care at all, because ...... That's not the main purpose!

In fact, the amount of charge charged by the eighteen-pound mortar gun itself is twice that of the nine-pound field gun, but because the barrel is too short, a lot of gunpowder is wasted because it has not had time to fully burn, but it is quite amazing in terms of momentum.

And now, with Hu Shoujin's order, they immediately increased the propellant, and the excessive propellant even made the shell slightly reveal the barrel, but thinking of the earth-shattering cannon sound, the gunners' already blackened faces showed smiles.

After reloading, the gunners inspected the cannon again, and then the gunner used a long awl to pierce through the fire door, piercing the cloth bag used to wrap the gunpowder, and inserting a long fire rope into the fire door. While they lit the arquebus, the boatmen tried to keep the ship aimed at the Qing army at all times.

Suddenly, an earth-shattering sound of cannon rang out, accompanied by a violent recoil, and even the bow of the ship slammed down, and then floated again......