Chapter 138. The era of cannon giants
The corners of Mao Jue's mouth twitched.
The battlefield is really changing rapidly, and suddenly, the four armored houses in the middle turned their bows at once, coming in their own direction, and followed suit, those official ships also deflected their directions, and came over by themselves, and what is even more excessive is that even the smallest Gong Xiaozao gave up the battle of the Li Dynasty Banwu ship, and came by himself, mixed in, and the Li Dynasty was captured by the Guan ship.
Like a giant fist, the wreaks pounced on themselves without hesitation.
The Li Chaobanwu fleet on the right wing couldn't stop it at all, or they didn't want to stop it, and they deliberately turned to the side, letting the Japanese boat come to fight Mao Jue is really feng shui turns, just now Mao Jue watched the excitement comfortably, so soon it was his turn to be unlucky, Li Shanhai watched the excitement.
"This bastard!"
The root of the angry teeth itched, Wen Meng smashed the mast with a fist, and then ran quickly to the bridge on the back deck, and saluted Mao Jue on one knee.
"General, let's open fire!"
"Fight a fart!"
In the telescope, Li Shanhai had no intention of chasing at all, so he seized the time to beat the water dogs, surrounded the injured and inmobile boats in the middle, and approached the shore to beat the one who was happy, raised his head and glanced at the Mao character flag hanging high in his head, Mao Jue muttered to himself sadly.
"Is Lao Tzu so hated?"
Glancing at the Japanese ship pioneer who was almost two miles away, Mao Jue shook his hand angrily.
"Don't be fucking stunned, turn the rudder quickly! Let's retreat to the southwest! Wave the flag to Su Fatzi and ask him to retreat to the northwest with the Dongjiang boat!"
"General!"
was still a little unwilling, Wen Meng hugged his fists again, but Mao Jue rolled his eyes to the sky.
"Come on, prepare a sampan for Wen Shou, and let him be cannon fodder for the Koreans!"
Suddenly, Wen Meng ran out of power.
Not to mention, the boat is rowing fast, this kung fu, more than a dozen bows are already approaching the black pearl, Bai Baihe two battleships are in the stern, the Japanese people above are excitedly holding spears and iron cannons and croaking and screaming, this kung fu, the two battleships are coming back sharply, only to hear a few crisp sounds, bow Xiaozao, cannon brand jade Xiaozao all let the hull form to bring up the waves to the side of the ship, crashed and smashed, more than a hundred Japanese robbers sadly played fancy swimming, and some were rolled under the hull did not come up.
Don't look at the huge size of these battleships, but they are not bulky at all, sailors and monkeys crawl around like that, the three masts are adjusted to the direction of the sea breeze, and they quickly reach the speed of eight knots, just look at the back, the huge Japanese fleet was instantly left behind, and the small Kobayakawa rowed with all his might, and the huge armored house ship was even slower, estimated to be only three or four knots, and in the rushing waves, a group of Japanese robbers watched Mao Jue's wind-like men float out.
"Stop chasing, wood is useful!"
On the stern bridge, Mao Jue was speechless holding a telescope, watching the warriors wearing ghost masks on the ship croaking and screaming, desperately chasing after him, rowing the oars as if he was on his grandmother's legs, and turning a blind eye to the Li Chaoshui next to him slaughtering his wounded.
"What are you doing? Dogs chasing? It's not over yet!"
Putting down the binoculars and glancing at the flag on his head, Mao Jue hummed sadly, tilted his head, Adriana pinched her little nose for some reason, and smiled like a crooked little vixen, Mao Jue's eyes widened in surprise.
"What are you laughing at?"
After chasing for almost half an hour, the battlefield was almost left behind, and the distance between the two fleets was stretched to almost three miles and four miles.
Hope burst into his eyes, and even the oarsmen seemed to have new strength at the whip swing, and the samurai leader at the bow of the ship was holding his katana with a curse, and the mad dogs pounced on the Japanese fleet and roared forward.
Theoretically, the 45-degree cannon at an elevation angle has the farthest range, and on land, Mao Jue's one-and-a-half-ton cannon and twelve-pound Hongyi cannon can hit three to three and a half kilometers at the farthest, but the ship has a cannon hatch and gun carriage constraints, and the highest can only hit about 20 degrees, that is, 1,500 meters, three miles.
This distance was almost widened, and the three battleships suddenly struck horizontally, and above, the heavy anchors were thrown into the sea fiercely, and below, the double-layer gun hatches were also slowly pulled up by iron chains, and the three boats, one hundred and eighty guns about three meters long, and more than 1,800 pounds of twelve-pound Hongyi cannons poked out of their dark bodies viciously and viciously.
Mao Jue didn't have a special crew now, so he had to shoot all the ground artillery posts, three people in charge of a cannon, the original main gunner and deputy gunner became the chief instructor, shouting and shouting for those non-professionals to shake the handle in front of the gun body and raise the elevation angle of the cannon to the highest.
Even if it was unprofessional, the well-trained Mao Jue army still completed this launch preparation in about thirty seconds.
Mao Jue's cannon still has a little new gadget on it, his muskets are all flintlock pistols, why can't the cannon be equipped with a flintlock device? Instead of sticking in a fire rope and igniting a cannon, these cannons are also equipped with a trigger on top of them, and the gunner can effectively fire when he pulls the trigger.
This avoids the situation where the target has been deviated from the aim due to the burning of the arquebus.
"Ready!"
Pulling her throat, Xiao Chunzi's emaciated little face turned red, and she slammed the drum in her hand.
"Fa Ye! (fire)”
I don't know how this word came about, anyway, when Mao Jue ordered the cannon, he was willing to shout like this, and over time, it also became the tradition of artillery and musketeers, and the pronunciation of the two words with a bit of mystery is better than a word put out of the momentum, as soon as this word came out, the gunners immediately pulled the flintlock, one hundred and twenty cannons, one after another thunder, the recoil pushed the heavy gun body immediately along the track back, the iron chain that tied the gun body was dragged and rattled, and the rich smoke and dust sprayed out, choking people's throats dry, The whole ship shuddered from the recoil.
The results were also remarkable.
To tell the truth, this round, these rookies are not accurate, the landing points are very scattered, but they can't stand the Japanese ships getting too close, as long as the general direction is correct, there is always a harvest, I can't see how many hits, but I can clearly see the chaos of the ships in the Japanese fleet, and even the pace of attack is Mao Jue, who suddenly saw a row of thighs.
"Good fight!"
Immediately, a herald ran off the deck, shouting loudly.
"The general said, it's a good fight!"
This kind of war machine, the use is simply too cool, Mao Jue's praise made the gunners in the cabin cheer, under Xiao Chunzi's drinking order, hurriedly washed the cooling tube with a mop dipped in water, this time, it was a shrapnel load, Mao Jue's secret killing weapon.
In three minutes, the Japanese ships advanced another five or six hundred meters, and they were already more than a thousand meters away from the three giant ships, and this second round of shelling exploded on the heads of the Japanese troops.
This time, the main anti-personnel personnel, the rainstorm pear blossom-like shotgun exploded on the head, splashing down, the iron armor could not be stopped, let alone the leather armor, bamboo armor, in the stunned heads of those samurai, crackling shotguns smashed down, the most densely populated ship's deck, immediately killed and injured a large number of people.
400 meters distance, round 3......
Carrying heavy casualties, these Japanese warships charged forward without abandoning, seeing that it was less than three hundred meters away from Mao Jue's hateful Mao Zi General Flag, and even some Japanese warriors had already raised their katanas, angrily stepping on the blood of their companions to charge and jump ship, but this kung fu Mao Jue leisurely ordered to close the anchor and turn the sail, turned the bow of the ship, and then slipped towards the direction of the North Sea.
to these gritted teeth, and left the back of a man like the wind.
The bow of the ironclad Ataka ship, the katana slashed against the wooden fence, and the deer helmet grimace mask came from under the pleasant scolding.
"Despicable and shameless Akito!"
"Master of the house, are we still chasing?"
"Chase! The Jiafei Hall and the Gong of Guosong are in the hands of this Ming general in front of him, as long as he is captured, the three adults can be exchanged back! Chase it no matter what!"
The hands were pinched and gurgling, and a pair of delicate apricot eyes behind the ghost mask stared forward with hatred.
At this command, the tired oarsman had to shake the oars violently again.
This time it was much slower than last time, Mao Jue opened the distance faster, less than thirty minutes, again, in the itching of the teeth of those Japanese warriors, the three warships of the Ming army lined up, and the muzzle of Hessesen's cannon was exposed.
This is not a showdown of the times, even the Spanish Armada that is also equipped with sail battleships and artillery was replaced by the rogue fleet composed of British pirates and hooligans in the Anglo-Spanish naval battle, and the naval battle pattern of large ships and heavy guns lasted until the appearance of aircraft and submarines, which was replaced.
The pursuit continued until dusk, and the exhausted Japanese fleet no longer had the strength to pursue a single step forward, and many of the sparsely scattered ships were tired across the water, and the huge armored Anzhai ships also fell far from here to Jeju Island, and there were all broken ships and drowned and blown up Japanese pirates, but the three sail battleships were still arrogantly moored near the Japanese fleet.
"Hehe, chase! Don't you dog eat? Why don't you chase it? ”
Holding the binoculars, Mao Jue smiled obscenely, but when he turned around, he looked at Adriana strangely.
"Niu, what are you pinching your nose and laughing at?"
The woman is so strange, Mao Jue didn't think much about it, and shouted loudly at Wen Meng below.
"Lao Wen, pass on Lao Tzu's military order, they have chased enough, it's our turn! Turn the rudder! The gunner prepares, hit him with a bit!"
"Adriana, what are you laughing at?"
In the roar of Mao Jue, the heavy battleship creaked and turned its head, but this time it was facing the direction of Jeju, and under the frightened gaze of those would-be robbers, the three giant ships scraped towards them like the scythe blades of death......
(End of chapter)