Subjected to a stormy artillery attack by the Ming army, such a scene had never been encountered before for the Western army. In the past, when fighting with the Ming army, although the Ming army had artillery, how could it have such a huge might?

In order to prevent the attack of the Ming fleet, most of the 30,000 Western Army entered the water village and boarded the ship, and now the whole water village has been in chaos.

More than 200 ships, more than 10 have been sunk by artillery in a short period of time, and hundreds of soldiers have fallen into the lake, howling and struggling in the water. From time to time, shells fell on the lake on the side of the boat, making huge splashes, and the boat swayed in the waves, and the soldiers on it were terrified.

Zhang Wenxiu looked at it in shock, before he had met the Ming army, his 30,000 subordinates were already frightened.

There were too many red-coated cannons of the Ming army, which was beyond Zhang Wenxiu's imagination, and the best way at this time was to retreat to the shore, away from the range of the Ming army's artillery attack. After all, it's too uncomfortable to be beaten and not be able to fight back.

However, if you retreat like this, it means completely abandoning this water village, giving up the hundreds of ships that you have collected with great difficulty, and you can only retreat to Jiujiang in disgrace, and you will have to face the pursuit of the Ming army.

And just when Zhang Wenxiu hesitated, the nightmare came again, and when the guns of the five Galen ships were firing, more than 20 two-masted sailing ships approached the water village, and the distance from the water village was more than a hundred paces, and it happened to stop unexpectedly at the range of the bow and arrow in the water village. On the deck of each two-masted galleon, a large catapult was installed, pulled by a crew of more than a dozen people, and was specially used to throw the newly developed flowering shells of the ordnance.

It is said that it is a flowering bullet, but it is actually similar to the 10,000 enemies used in defending the city, but it is made of iron, and the inner hollow can hold more than 50 catties of gunpowder, and between the gunpowder and the iron shell outside, there are thousands of lead bullets, small iron arrows, and the whole body is more than 100 catties. Use the long reed officer to lead the lead out of the gunpowder inside, when the lead is ignited before the projectile, and then quickly projectile out, the huge projectile will explode in the air or after landing, more than 50 catties of gunpowder exploded in an instant, thousands of projectiles together with the iron shell fragments after the explosion, when exploding like a flower of death, enough to destroy any living thing within a hundred steps, here is the huge flowering bomb newly developed by the Ordnance Division!

Of course, this kind of shell has great defects, first of all, because it is too heavy to fire from a gun, even if the weight is reduced, for example, to the size of a cannon shell, because there is a danger of exploding in the chamber.

Therefore, the Ordnance Institute designed this kind of trebuchet, but this kind of flowering bomb and trebuchet is not easy to carry with the army after all, and can only be loaded on a warship. So this kind of artillery is actually specially developed to deal with enemy ships, and it is conceivable that when the two fleets are fighting on the sea, one such shell is thrown on the deck, which is enough to destroy the entire deck!

And now, the thieves were beaten by the cannon and cowered in the camp and could not fight back, and it was the time to use this flowering shell.

More than 20 flowering bullets were thrown out by the stone thrower, and flew slowly towards the thief army's water village, falling from the sky under the horrified eyes of the thief army, and then with an earth-shattering loud noise, it exploded into a huge spark, and countless projectile iron pieces flew in all directions like arrows, and there were countless screams and the sound of corpses falling into the water.

However, this new weapon is not mature after all, and the time of the explosion is difficult to estimate accurately. Of the more than 20 flowering shells, only five exploded in the air, and more than 10 fell into the lake, and the burning fuse was soaked in the lake and then disappeared. Several more shells hit the ship, gurgling and rolling, and then exploded, leaving the entire ship and the thieves on several nearby ships empty in an instant.

It was only less than ten flowering shells, causing at least more than 1,000 casualties among the soldiers of the Western Army, which was far higher than the number theory of the red-coated cannon just now.

At this moment, the cannons of the five Galen battleships had stopped firing, and Jin Xin commanded the fleet to rush towards the thief army camp in chaos like a school of sharks.

In the shelling just now, the thieves had already panicked, several arrow towers were destroyed by shells, and the wall of the wall was also knocked down.

The Ming army took the opportunity to approach, and it was not easy to retreat safely, coupled with such chaos in the water village, if the retreat was ordered in a hurry, it would not cause chaos. Zhang Wenxiu immediately sent an order to prepare for the attack of the Ming army, and ordered his henchmen to lead the elite soldiers on the ship, preparing to rush out of the water village and meet the Ming army in short combat.

The scale of the attacking Ming army was not more than 10,000, and there were nearly 30,000 soldiers in the battalion, so he was unwilling to let Zhang Wenxiu escape like this.

However, Zhang Wenxiu didn't know that he was not facing the Ming army in the ordinary sense, but a great enemy whose tactics were completely different from the Ming army he had encountered in the past. Jin Xin did not order the fleet to attack the water village directly, but stopped not far from the water village, and the firearms on all the warships aimed at the camp and launched an overwhelming attack.

Hundreds of tiger squat guns, nearly 100 Franc machines, nearly 100 rockets such as swarms and flying dragons, plus more than 2,000 firearms. Countless rockets and projectiles were overwhelming like locusts, and the attacking Western convoy was devastating before it could leave the gate. The strength of the Ming army's firearms was beyond their imagination!

More than ten ships of sulfur saltpeter purchased by the Wa Kingdom, a large amount of refined carbon purchased in the mountainous areas of Zhejiang, in exchange for hundreds of thousands of catties of gunpowder on Dongfan Island, and a large number of firearms looted from the arsenal in Nanjing, also came in handy at this time.

The powerful firearm covering fire brought a catastrophe to Zhang Wenxiu's Western Army, which was close at hand.

Although the casualties of the Western Army at this time were less than thirty percent, all the soldiers were already in great panic, and this panic spread rapidly, and the entire water village was already in chaos.

In the face of the panicked thief army, Jin Xin did not give the order to rush into the water village to attack, but calmly ordered, continue to attack with firearms, the number of the Ming army is far less than the thief army, can defeat the thief army without losing his subordinates, there is no need to engage in white-knuckle combat, compared with the lives of his soldiers, what is it to spend more gunpowder firearms?

Although the number of people was still more than that of the Ming army, Liu Wenxiu had fallen into despair at this time. From the very beginning, the battle entered very foreign territory to him, and the Ming army completely relied on powerful firearms to defeat his army, leaving his army of 30,000 demoralized.

At this time, if he persists, he is afraid that the whole army will be wiped out, so even if he is unwilling, Zhang Wenxiu can only order a retreat and lose the two-story boat he likes.

The thief army retreated, Jin Xin naturally would not let them leave easily, and with an order, Lu Tai took the Dinghai soldiers who had been waiting for a long time to enter the thief army's water camp, even if the Dinghai navy was weak, in the face of the thief army who fled in panic, they were all excited to row the boat quickly, and raised the weapon in their hands at the thief army.