Chapter 208: Textbook Naval Battles
The 10,000 enemies carried by the Kong Ming lantern burned through the Kong Ming lantern under the fixed lead, causing those 10,000 enemies to fall from the sky like rain. Although the accuracy was scarce, there were too many of them, and the black pressure spread all over the sky, and it fell like hail. As soon as one of them smashed on the ship's board, the ceramic shell immediately shattered, and the fuses immediately ignited the fierce fire oil that flew everywhere, and the battleship was ruined, and the dry plank burned into a fire in the blink of an eye. What's even worse is that Yan Siqi's battleship was built according to the original inherent method, in order to be able to concentrate firepower to attack the enemy, Yan Siqi built his battleship into a building ship, and instead of side-chord artillery, he used deck artillery.
One of the advantages of this approach is that the artillery is able to move from side to side. On the sea, the direction of the wind and waves is irregular, so that the artillery can be turned to one side at any time, and all the guns on the battleship can be concentrated to strike at the enemy.
But he also had a fatal weakness, that is, the way the artillery was arranged, the artillery did not have any protection, and it was extremely vulnerable. As a result, these Kong Ming lanterns fell one after another, and the burning of those fierce fire oils immediately ignited the yao on the deck, and the explosion would immediately destroy a battleship, making Yan Siqi suffer enough.
And the mines under the water that floated down the Qiantang River slowly drifted into the ranks of pirate warships, and one after another battleships were damaged and sunk, so that Yan Siqi's losses continued to increase.
A fleet that is rampant on the sea, but it is helpless at the mouth of the Qiantang River, which really makes people suffocate to death.
"Full sails, paddles, close to the enemy." Aggrieved to aggrieved, but Yan Siqi was still calm and composed, methodically directing his fleet to move forward, as long as his fleet was close to the enemy ships, the advantage of his artillery would be completely exerted to his advantage of speed and concentration.
The fleets on both sides kept approaching, and Yan Siqi's command ships fired cannons at the opposite side one by one, not to hit the enemy, but to measure the distance between the two sides. When a cannonball fell into the fleet of the Daming Navy Division on the opposite side, Yan Siqi slashed the command flag in his hand. The guns of more than 400 battleships began to bombard violently, and shells like flying ducks immediately smashed into the fleet of the Daming Naval Division. Heavy columns of water covered the Qiantang River, and one after another the warships of the Daming Navy Division were hit, and screams and wails filled the river.
Yu Zhigao's face did not change, and after the two fleets approached again, Yu Zhigao ordered loudly: "The fire dragon is out of the water." ”
The fire dragon out of the water, is a multi-stage rocket, with a paper paste tube tied to the first stage of the rocket, there is a second stage rocket in the dragon's mouth, after the launch of the increase in the range to hit the enemy ship, for water attack, the range can reach 1.5 kilometers. One after another, huge fire dragons flew out of the water like long dragons and pounced on the enemy's fleet, and the huge power made the enemy fearful.
The distance was closer, and Yu Zhigao ordered loudly again, "Go to the white tiger and run together." ”
Hundreds of tigers rushed together, also called a swarm of bees, at that time there were a variety of specifications, from 3 consecutive shots of magic arrows, to 100 consecutive rounds of arrows belong to this category. With a range of 300 meters, the repeating rocket compensates for the weakness of the ballistic instability of ordinary rockets. It was the rocket artillery of later generations, and in naval battles, his purpose was not to kill the enemy, but to ignite the enemy's warships.
Hundreds of tigers on hundreds of warships rushed together, what a spectacular scene, one by one advancing gunpowder smoke white lines, in the blink of an eye paved the surface of the river. The whistling sound of the rocket was deafening, although the target was a little worse, but it couldn't stand too much, nearly 10,000 rockets were a rain of arrows, and they were splashed over with their heads and faces, even if Yan Siqi's soldiers were desperately fighting, but one white sail after another was ignited, and it burned into one torch after another in a blink of an eye.
Seeing that the enemy's fleet began to panic and began to burn in large numbers, Yu Zhigao sneered and said: "A group of pirates, just want to show off their might in front of my Great Ming Naval Division, just want to bargain with me, it's just wishful thinking." Now although the sailors of the Ming Dynasty have declined, they are still tigers and dragons. The declining Jiaolong is also a Jiaolong, and it is not your turn to show off your power in front of me. I have all kinds of fire waiting for you, I'll show you the advanced technology of Daming now, and I'll let you see, what kind of textbook-like water warfare. ”
"Fu Bune Attack."
The fortune ship of the Daming sailor is the most terrifying to the enemy, the firearms equipped on it are simply outrageous, a fortune ship is equipped with 1 Dafa tribute, 6 big Buddha Lang machines, 3 bowls, 60 spray cans, 10 beak guns, 100 cigarette cans, 500 crossbow arrows, 00 kg of medicine slaves, 00 kg of bird guns, 1 bottle of medicine, 00 kg of size, 300 rockets, etc. This guy is the equivalent of an arsenal, a hedgehog fully armed with firearms.
Fujian's sailors still have more than 10 such big guys, and as soon as this guy came out, Yan Siqi gasped, he knew that he had failed in this water war. In order to avoid greater losses, Yan Siqi decisively ordered the withdrawal from the Qiantang River estuary. Here, his tactics are difficult to achieve, and retreat to the open sea, which is where he can show his strength.
With an order, the wounded warships were abandoned, and Yan Siqi's pirate fleet quickly retreated to the open sea.
Yu Zhigao sneered and watched Yan Siqi's fleet go away, and said contemptuously at the corner of his mouth: "Don't run, I still have many means that I haven't used." That being said, Yu Zhigao also knew his mission and the shortcomings of his fleet. Immediately ordered the fleet to stop pursuing, and took advantage of the water flow to hold the mouth of the Qiantang River to the death, cutting off Yan Siqi's supply to the enemy under the city of Hangzhou. This is their own role, and if they pursue to the sea, they will suffer a big loss.
This water battle was over, Yu Zhigao counted his losses, in this water battle, his own fleet lost, close to 50 ships, which was caused by the enemy's fast and dense artillery. And the countless firearms lost on the warship made Yu Zhigao feel extremely distressed, which was the family foundation he had accumulated over the years. You should save some money in the next battle, otherwise it will be unsustainable.
And the destruction of the enemy at least 70 warships or more is the power of firearms, and their own heavy and backward artillery is almost not captured. Also, I haven't bought a single artillery piece for more than ten years, and it's good to be able to do this.
Compared with Yan Siqi, there is really a huge gap between his own fleet and Yan Siqi. Fortunately, he has only one purpose, that is, to block the mouth of the Qiantang River. There is no need to take the initiative to attack, Yan Siqi will definitely not be able to be defeated at sea, so use this narrow estuary, use your own firearms, and wait for work to see which of the two of us has consumed whom. 21. Baidu take a look at the latest chapter of "Lonely Ministers and Jiezhong Literature in the Late Ming Dynasty" for free reading for the first time.
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