In the violent explosion, that Liang Hai only felt dizzy, he couldn't hear what the people around him were saying, and he couldn't even hear the explosion, he only felt like he was in a small boat, swaying, flying shrapnel in the choking whistle smoke, he saw Songjia's Hada was running when he was slashed by shrapnel to the stomach, and the stomach flowed down instantly, but the people were still fleeing in terror, letting the intestines drag on the ground, and then the whole person disappeared in the smoke cloud of the explosion.

Minggou's cannon is also too powerful!

Not to mention the Liang Hai in the midst of artillery fire, even Turg was also stunned by the battlefield filled with gunsmoke, the previous shelling of Ming Dog was only concentrated one or two miles away from the river, but now there are shells from them everywhere.

Hundreds and thousands of shells!

Those shells are not iron lumps that can only hurt people, but flowering shells that can explode when they fall to the ground, and can blow people to pieces.

However, when the artillery ships of the Ming army opened fire, the artillery team of the Qing army was also firing back on the river.

However, it is very regrettable that because of the distance, the results of the Qing army's artillery bombardment were almost - no effect.

The Qing army's red-coated artillery had a flat firing distance of only four or five hundred meters, and in the absence of sights, at a distance of four hundred and five to six hundred meters, whether or not they could hit the target with a smoothbore gun front-loading cannon was actually a matter of luck most of the time.

Especially when those fleets are all facing the enemy at the bow, the target itself is very small, and the water surface is smashed by cannonballs one after another, and the waves raised by the water column make the ships rise and fall extremely badly, and it is even more difficult to hit the target.

As a result, despite the rumbling and cannon fire on the river and land, and the water column on the river was also monstrous, there was no Ming army ship hit for a long time.

In contrast, the casualties of the Qing army continued to increase - the Ming gunners did not aim at all, just fired shells, and then the rest was left to gravity and, of course, luck. But most of the time, the luck of the Ming army was not bad, and the steel fragments produced after the explosion would always take the lives of several people.

In fact, to put it bluntly, everyone relies on luck, but the luck of the Ming army is greater, after all, the gap in technology is there.

Shelling!

Constant shelling from day to night! It doesn't seem to have stopped.

Although the Ming artillery bombardment became sparse after nightfall, the shelling continued, and during the day, the Qing army saw white smoke trails falling from the sky, and at night, it was as if they were witnessing a fireworks display, because the fuses of the burning shells fired at night spewed sparks outward, and these sparks made the shells look like meteors dragging their tails in the night.

However, the moment the meteor landed, a huge cloud of smoke would immediately explode......

Of course, the artillery bombardment of the Ming army has no effect - now the Qing army has withdrawn beyond the range of the Ming gunboats, and only a few troops still have the front, among which is Cao Eryu's heavy battalion, but after nightfall, the red-coated cannons of the heavy battalion have stopped firing - it is a waste of shells. At first, they didn't feel that way, but after a long day of fighting, they fully realized what despair was. It was difficult to hit one out of a hundred, and even lost a few cannons in the opponent's return fire, so it simply stopped fighting.

But despite this, Cao Eryu was not idle, taking advantage of the Ming army's focus on bombarding the distant kung fu, he arrived at the front camp that had been bombed into ruins, and looked for it in the front camp with a torch.

"Uncle, what are we looking for?"

The minions who followed behind Cao Eryu nervously watched the fireworks overhead, and when the explosion in the distance came, they couldn't help but be terrified. But even so, they had to follow behind their master. After all, the master had taken the risk to find that thing, and if they didn't come with him, it would not be up to them to blame the master.

"Look for the iron ball, the iron ball that didn't explode!"

Cao Eryu looked back at the minions and commanded.

"If any of you can find it, you will be rewarded with twenty taels of silver!"

When the minions heard this, their eyes lit up, twenty taels of silver! For these dozens of taels of silver, it is worth the death.

More than a dozen minions bent their waists, looking for them with torches, and soon they found a few iron balls, looking at those round iron balls, Cao Eryu's breathing seemed a little short.

"Dad, my son has made a great contribution to the master this time!"

The reason why he was so excited was because he knew that the Ming army's flowering bombs must have something special about him, as long as he brought back these flowering bombs that didn't explode, and then figured out how it exploded, and then drew a scoop according to the gourd to make that thing. It will be a great achievement when the time comes!

Such credit is hard to come by. In fact, this is also where he is smart. In the eyes of others, he only saw the danger of those flowering bullets, but in his eyes, he saw opportunities.

When Cao Eryu carefully put the picked up cannonballs into the bamboo basket, in front of a courtyard gate far away from the riverbank, Abatai looked into the distance with a blue face, and there were tents temporarily erected everywhere on the snow - several large camps were hurriedly abandoned in the shelling of the Ming army, not that he was willing to give up, but those large battalions were within the scope of the Ming army's shelling, and a single shell could take the lives of as few as a dozen or as many as dozens of people. If you don't withdraw, you won't even wait for the dog to come ashore, and the people will be blown up!

Such a battle will be lost without fighting at all!

"Ming Dog!"

Abatai scolded hatefully, it was the first time he had touched a battle like today, and Minggou didn't give him a chance to fight back at all!

It's so far away on the river, bombarding them with cannons!

Luckily, the cannon can't hit here!

Compared with the anger of his master, Hou Fangyu was more glad, he was glad that he could survive the fierce artillery fire, and he didn't know how many people lost their lives.

When has the artillery of the official army ever been so sharp?

Putting his heart is doubtful, but in the hearts of Abatai, Turg and others, it is a mixed array of flavors, originally they can enter Nanjing City at any time, killing and robbing, but now, they are bombarded by Minggou's gunboats and can't find the north, what is even more annoying is that they can only be beaten here passively, unless they also go to the boat to fight with Minggou, otherwise, in addition, they can only watch Minggou bombard themselves.

"Lord Belle, if we can't repel these gunboats, we will be trapped in Nanjing City, drag it out like this, let alone force the people in Nanjing to surrender the city, I'm afraid we are trapped here and can't move!"

"Yes! Lord Belle, it's not a way to drag it out like this! ”

Listening to Turg, you and I said word by word, the irritable Abatai asked rhetorically.

"So what do you say? Could it be that we really go to the water to fight with Ming Dog? How many of us know how to water one by one? ”

Abatai's rhetorical question made everyone dumbfounded, few of them knew water, if they sank into the water......

"Lord Belle, I'm afraid we can't just talk here, no one understands water warfare, otherwise, let's find someone to ask!"

The so-called search for people is Geng Zhongyu, the brother of Geng Zhongming, the king of Huaishun, among so many people under the command of Abatai, that is, he is the only one who understands water warfare, including the large army going back and forth between the two shores, and the fleet is also crossing the river under his command.

"Lord Belle, in fact, what Hou Fangyu said today is not unreasonable, Ming Dog is on the water, if they don't come ashore with iron determination, they just bombard us like this, we don't even have room to fight back, we can only watch them beat us, if you want to hit them, we must go to the boat."

Faced with Lord Belle's question, Geng Zhongyu gave him a direct answer.

"Otherwise, we'll just stand here and watch them bombard us."

Geng Zhongyu said it was direct. No one wants to stand there and be beaten and can't fight back, that's the case with technology. They also know their own shortcomings.

"But most of the officers and soldiers in the army don't know how to water!"

It's true that a lot of them don't know how to swim, they can't swim. How can such a person have a water fight?

"Will the water not be tight. Water warfare doesn't necessarily have to know water, to put it bluntly, when fighting a water war, if you fall into the water, you will definitely die, even if you wear armor on the water body, you have to sink. After all, the water war is fought on a boat, as long as we have a boat, we can jump to the gang, and we can jump to the pass of the Ming Dog to kill the Ming Dog. ”

Geng Zhongyu didn't know. More than ten years later, it was because of this point of view that the Qing army sent the Eight Banners to the ship, and it was said that he was wearing such thick armor. Even if you can swim, falling into the water is an iron lump, and you can't see a shadow all of a sudden.

When he said this, the big guys thought about it, but this is not the truth. It doesn't seem to matter if it's water or not.

"That being said, what if they bombard us on the water?"

Now to Lord Belle's question, Geng Zhongyu smiled, and then said.

"Lord Belle, they really don't necessarily have cannons, you see......"

Geng Zhongyu pointed to the meteor in the sky and said.

"Lord Shizi, you see, today the little ones have been looking at the gunboats of the Ming army, and their guns don't seem to be able to shoot flat, so if we want to break the enemy, I'm afraid it's still on this."

Facing Lord Belle, Geng Zhongyu said quite proudly.

"If they had a cannon that could hit us flat, they probably wouldn't have bombarded us with such a cannon. If my estimation is correct, their cannons seem to be powerful, but they must have their shortcomings, and besides, they have cannons, and we have cannons. ”