The hull of the Baotou steel ship rotated very much, and soon it alarmed Zhao He, Wang Erniu, etc., who were resting in the cabin, and the children of the peasants who went to sea for the first time, the sea area of the Wa Kingdom in early February was still very cold, if they didn't want to see what the legendary naval battle was like, they were not willing to stay in the cockpit room on the deck for more.

"We are now in the upper hand, order all ships, lift the hot air balloons on board, bring fire oil bombs, catapults and bed crossbows to the deck, I want that after this battle, any Japanese people dare not rise up against my Datang mind."

"Order."

The horn of the ever-changing scale sounded, and the command flag was also accurately given by the sailors who gave the order, and almost instantly, Zhao Long's order was transmitted to the ships a hundred meters apart, which was the combat quality of the old crew who had been trained for five or six years.

"Wow, it's going to start, hurry up and get a few binoculars, there seem to be a lot of people on the other side, but, it seems that we are now on the attacking side, and we seem to be very afraid of us, shrinking."

The control cabin on the deck is the best place to see from the angle, and there are pure transparent glass about fifteen millimeters thick on all sides, which can not only block the wind, but also waterproof, and also allow the captain to keenly capture the surrounding sea conditions.

There are not many opportunities to encounter war at sea, and Zhao Gang, the captain of several ships, inevitably takes this opportunity to teach them.

"When fighting at sea, communication is very important, even if you are not needed during the war, but you must also learn to listen to the horn, look at the flag, at night, but also pay attention to the signal lights, sometimes, sent out, may be an escape signal, when receiving the signal, you must tie up the life jacket as soon as possible, jump into the sea and swim away, if it is late, you may be taken to the bottom of the sea by the hull."

Hearing this, a few little guys who went to sea for the first time were very frightened and said, "Ha! Is it so dangerous? The sea is so cold, you have to jump? ”

Zhao Gang nodded and said, "Of course, when you receive the instructions of the flagship or the captain's order from the front, don't hesitate at all, there have been three accidents of the hydro ships manufactured by our Weinan Shipyard that capsized at sea, and there are more on the Lingnan Shipyard side, although the wooden ships do not carry heavy cargo, they generally cannot be sunk, and they were finally towed up and repaired by us, but in these accidents that hit the reef or capsized without avoiding the big waves in time, we have hundreds of brothers who died in the sea, because they failed to evacuate in time." ”

In the face of strong winds and waves, the ship itself may become a dangerous existence, sometimes it may be because of the huge shaking, the people on the boat are knocked unconscious, sometimes, in order to reduce the weight of the ship, increase buoyancy, so that it does not sink due to the inflow of seawater, everything on the ship has to be thrown into the sea, even if it is as valuable as gold ore, it is also true, similar experience, Zhao Long They have accumulated so many years at sea.

However, the current new ship, in the drainage, and sealing and other aspects of the design, has been very advanced, the wind and waves that were enough to overturn those wooden water steamers, but may not be helpless now this steel structure keel of the steel-clad ship, a slight collision with the reef, may not damage the hull, the safety factor has been improved a lot.

While they were talking, the hot air balloon on the deck had begun to inflate and lift off, and the small boat sent by the Wa Kingdom to communicate was also within two hundred meters of the flagship.

"Catapult, are you sure that a bullet will hit?" Zhao Long looked at the hot air balloons that had been lifted off by the ships, and asked the commander of the projection that had been arranged on the wide deck.

"The distance has been calculated, whether to launch immediately."

"Launch now."

"Order."

"A catapult on the left, loaded with solid stone projectiles, adjusted to the left to an angle of thirty degrees, an elevation angle of sixty degrees, fifty-eight degrees, fifty-six degrees, fifty-four degrees, and fired."

"Anti-······"

The sound of a firing hammer hitting the metal bracket came out, and a stone ball the size of a watermelon suddenly flew out, the catapult of this fixed weight hammer on the ship, as long as the weight of the stone bullet is standard, when the wind and waves do not cause the hull to shake, it can basically hit the stone bullet to a fixed point according to the different angles, due to the large target of the attack, even if there is a slight error, it can still hit, and the wooden ship, when it suffers the impact force of the solid stone bullet weighing dozens of pounds in the air, it will basically be directly penetrated and sunk.

Sure enough, not long after the stone bullet was launched, everyone heard the sound of 'click', and Zhang Gongjin clearly saw in the telescope that the Japanese ship was blasted into a big hole in the middle by the stone bullet, and the hull began to sink into the water.

"This ······"

Zhang Gongjin can be regarded as a veteran of the battlefield, but this is the first time he has seen the scene of a battle at sea, this new catapult is so accurate, he has witnessed the whole process, and he knows that to achieve this kind of precision strike, it seems that it takes a pretty good arithmetic foundation.

In fact, all the angles and landing points of the parabola, here in the catapult commander, there is a table with detailed data recorded, he only needs to visually calculate the approximate distance and angle of the target, and the distance of the landing point recorded on the table, and he can immediately find the angle when launching.

For example, the target is now 180 meters, the elevation angle of the catapult is 60 degrees, just bombarding this position, the two ships are opposite each other, every three meters close, lower by one degree, close to six meters, lower by two degrees, the commander only needs to visually measure the distance, compare the table, read out the angle when launching, the launcher can adjust at the elevation angle that can be moved, and launch quickly, anyway, the sea ship is generally more than ten meters long, several meters wide, the target is so big, there are one or two degrees of mistake, and it can still hit the target.

It's just that this way of fighting, in the eyes of Zhang Gongjin, who has not seen the application of this new equipment, is more magical, and few of his subordinate soldiers can read words, understand angles, and know how to read parabolic landing point tables.

With the hit of this bomb, and the hot air balloon that rose higher and higher began to float down the wind and float towards the sky above the Japanese army, there was already a huge commotion on the side of the Japanese navy, although the number of warships of the Tang army was inferior to theirs, and the number was less than theirs, but they did not have the slightest confidence that they could win.

Because they could see at a glance that these warships that suddenly appeared in the port of Kyushu Island were owned by the regular army of the Tang Dynasty, and their past combat experience told them that even a Tang army with only 800 men and 10 waterwheel warships could not be defeated by their 10,000-strong team.

As early as several years ago, their combined naval forces with Goryeo, Silla, Baekje and other countries were beaten by the 800 Tang Army.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, the Tang Army will not give us a chance to negotiate at all."

"What are they going to do? What the hell are those things flying in the sky? Does anyone know?" ······"

On the stable ship, he began to panic, no Japanese admiral could answer his question, now their sight, can only barely see the high side of the Tang Army, and they have not even found that these ships are wrapped in a layer of steel plates, and the collision angle of the bow of the ship is a large steel ingot made of a whole pouring, even if it hits the reef, it can crack the reef, not to mention their backward wooden ships that do not even have keels.

And at such a distance, the Tang Army's attack has been launched, the latest development of the Ministry of Industry Weapons Research Institute, specifically to hit long-range targets of the three-bow bed crossbow, its ultimate range of 1,500 meters, in the current distance between the two armies is less than 800 meters, or downwind state, its penetrating power is extremely strong, the arm thick arrow shaft, fist-sized stainless steel arrow, can directly connect the deck of the Japanese ship to the bottom of the ship, or the bulkhead penetration, on the deck of ten large ships, only sixty bed crossbow salvos, Dozens of ships on the very edge were knocked out of their capacity to move.

The most terrifying picture of this kind of blow is that when the arrow penetrates the human body, the entire chest and abdomen will be directly stirred into flesh and blood by the high-speed rotating arrow, splashing everywhere, and an arrow can penetrate the bodies of several people.

"Ahh Woo~"

The screams came from the warships of the Japanese Kingdom at the forefront, and Zhao He and the other little guys couldn't help but cover their eyes, the picture was too cruel.

As the bed crossbow arrows were shot round by round, the sense of fear suddenly spread throughout the Japanese army, although the arrows shot by the Tang army were not many, but the lethality was huge, the key was that they were completely in a passive state of beating, as far as the strongest bow and crossbow equipped on their ship, in the state of headwind, at most the arrows could only be shot out more than a hundred meters away, even if the range was doubled or tripled, they could not touch the side of the Tang warship, how to fight?

"Stretch, stretch, stretch······"

The shooting of the bed crossbow continued, and soon, the ships at the front of the Japanese army began to shrink back, and the soldiers on the boats, sailors and boatmen, ran to the ships behind, and some even jumped directly into the sea and swam to the ships behind, no one wanted to be shot by such a big arrow, and the flesh and blood were blurred.

"The Japanese have not grown at all, such a battle, there is no technical content, all the ships in front of them have shrunk back, soldiers and sailors have fled backwards, all the warships are nested in the harbor, as long as our hot air balloons are in place, a few rounds of fire and oil bombs are dropped, they will be wiped out, should we kill them all, or leave a few prisoners, what do you say?" In such an unskilled battle, Zhao Long didn't bother to stand on the command platform to command, and came down to ask Zhang Gongjin for instructions.

"Is this about to end? Then leave me the ship with the royal flag of the Japanese kingdom! Catching them as a big man in the royal family may be of some use to us. ”

"Order."

From the beginning of the war to the present, there has not been even half an hour, the enemy ship is still 500 meters away, Zhao Long is about to announce that the battle is over, this kind of victory makes Zhang Gongjin a little confused, there are 20,000 or 30,000 Japanese navy on the opposite side! Is this a naval battle?

When his telescope swept over the Japanese Navy, Zhao Long had already given the last order according to his intentions, and then, only to see the black jars and jars thrown down by the soldiers on the hanging baskets, and then, the crowded warship area of the Japanese Navy became a sea of fire.

Because the ships on the edge were destroyed by the great arrows of the bed crossbows, and the crew and soldiers on board also fled backwards, all the Japanese ships were nested in the harbor, and they could not disperse, and the fierce clay pots were smashed on their ships, and even if they flowed to the sea, the fire would burn directly on the water, and the speed of the fire was simply too fast.

Zhao Long, who saw this picture in the telescope, turned dark and said, "It seems that we have used too much force, and we don't need to use this kind of joint naval and air attack method for a naval force like the Wa Kingdom, and now if we want to catch the big men of their royal family, I am afraid that we have to go into the fire to save people." ”