"Right hand rudder 2...... Starboard ready ...... Free Fire! Kong Pei visually measured the distance and angle between his hull and the target on the shore, and gave one command after another, while the first mate standing behind him shouted at the deck to repeat the command, and then the sailors and sailmen on the deck passed the order to the bow and the top of the mast to ensure that everyone could hear it. The second officer, who was the gunner's officer in wartime, stood by the large brass pipe in the stern, and when an order came from the gunner, he would listen to it, and then bow his head and shout into the brass so that the gunner on the gun deck below could hear the captain's order.

"Smack...... Smack...... Snap......" In an instant, the gun doors on the starboard side of the Haibo and Quanzhou were all pulled up, and the gun doors hit the hull with a crackling sound, and a row of large thick pipes came out of these small windows, straight towards the shore high ground where they were standing. At this time, five or six drawing boards had been erected on the plateau, and several painters from different nationalities were using different techniques to depict the Haibo and Quanzhou as vividly as possible.

One more thing to say here is that the gun door was invented by the French, and it was not originally a facility on a battleship, but on a merchant ship. Large sail merchant ships often have two or three decks, and loading cargo can sometimes be very troublesome, and they have to be moved in from the hatch on the deck, and then move down layer by layer. The French came up with the idea of opening a small window above the waterline, so that when loading and unloading cargo of a small volume, the cargo below the deck could be directly entered and exited through these small windows, saving the trouble of moving up and down, and without affecting the navigation. Close these small windows when you sail. It won't leak. Later, this facility was stolen away by the British captain. As a result, with a slight modification, it became an adjunct to a weapon.

"Handsome! It's not safe here, let's go back to the camp, there are bed crossbows in the Southern Dynasty, maybe you can shoot here......" Shi Tianze immediately felt the danger after seeing a row of small windows suddenly open on the sides of the two strange ships on the river. This feeling is not a rational analysis, but a perceptual guess, and the more people who have experienced life and death, the more accurate this guess becomes. In the words of later generations, it is the sixth sense.

"Bed crossbow? Can the bed crossbow of the Southern Dynasty shoot a mile away? Swanhu, this is the battlefield, it's better not to say such words that disturb the morale of the army. Kuo De did not express his gratitude to Shi Tianze, but was very dissatisfied! No matter how you say it, he is a high-ranking general, and in front of so many subordinates and colleagues, he actually wants to persuade the commander to retreat, just because of the bed crossbow. It's not like I've never seen that thing, who has ever heard of a crossbow arrow that can kill a person from a mile away? If there is, Kudete will withdraw his troops immediately, this battle will not be fought!

"Handsome! Handsome! Run...... Come on! Those boats, those boats will ......" is a coincidence. Just as Haibo and Quanzhou were preparing to bombard, and Kukude and Shi Tianze were discussing the bed crossbow, a man and a horse suddenly ran out of the camp behind. It looks extremely embarrassing. The man on the horse was covered in mud, and he couldn't tell what color his clothes and skin were, and the horse was even more miserable, it was also covered in mud, and the saliva from his mouth and nose was bloodshot.

"Daru Red Flower! What about your general? "At a glance, he recognized who this clay figure was, he was the lieutenant of Tath, who had been by his side, and now he had become like this, and he had run his horse to death, which was a sign of great urgency for the Mongolian rider who had always cherished his warhorse, and was often synonymous with fleeing for his life.

"Dashuai...... Come down, those boats ......" The man did not answer the broad question, turned over and jumped off the horse, rolled directly on the ground, and when he got up, he shouted desperately in an extremely hoarse voice.

"Boom...... Rumble...... ......"It's a pity that he is still late, although he has killed three horses, the crotch of his trousers has been worn to a bloody blur, due to the current traffic conditions, he still did not have time to rescue his commander's life, only a day after watching his lord be killed by those thunderous weapons, and watching his commander, the son of the Great Khan of Mongolia, in a series of roars, the body and horses were directly pulled up from the ground by an unknown force, and then flew down to the bottom of the high ground like a broken plank, A puddle of hot flesh even sprayed him in the face.

Dozens of iron balls, along with those that could and could not be exploded, plowed all the objects on the high ground in a matter of seconds, and all the earth, grass, horses, human bodies, and weapons were not spared. As long as it is on the path of these iron balls, they will either be broken by the iron balls, or the iron balls will bounce away, and all the results will depend on who is harder than whom, and who is less afraid of pain than whom.

The soil is not afraid of pain, even if it is riddled with holes by the iron ball, they still silently watch what is happening in front of them. Blood, minced flesh, bones, metal shards, and some iron beads the size of sheep dung and eggs fell on them. Among these things, the first few things of dirt are very welcome, as long as they enter their arms, after a few months, they can be turned into nourishment, which can be used to nourish more green grass, to fill their bodies with potholes made by those iron balls, not only will they not be seen, but they will also appear more beautiful. The latter two are useless, but the soil is very tolerant, never picky, useful and useless it is open to acceptance, passive ......

Like the soil, the dozens of Mongolian generals on the highlands were also very resistant to the attitude of these iron balls and iron beads, and they were unwilling to accept them. But at this time they said that it didn't count, the two battleships were so enthusiastic that they simply gave them away, and even the 80-mm close-in defense guns on the deck were loaded with solid shells, and they shot together, no matter whether they hit accurately or not, one more shell would give them more hope anyway.

"Let's do it harder, brothers! Come on, go back and I'll invite everyone to eat mutton hot pot, the same as the chairman's house! Lower the top sail! Lower the top sails! Kong Pei was very excited, he knew that the people standing on the high ground were all Mongolian generals, and he didn't know how big the officials were, anyway, they were not small, and a few of them were the same as the guy killed in Yingzhou City, at least ten thousand households! In the Mongol military system, Wanhu was already a high-ranking general, and at least half of the shells in this shelling hit the high ground, and the results should be brilliant.

Now he can't wait for the smoke to clear and then count the results, he also knows another rule in the Mongolian army, that is, the wounded and killed generals must be snatched back, otherwise his own soldiers and lieutenants will be beheaded. What does this mean? This means that these Mongol troops on the river bank must go to the high ground to rescue their commanders, otherwise they will die even if they go back! According to the firing frequency of the Haibo and Quanzhou, there was a round of fire in more than 2 minutes, and when those Mongol troops ran to the high ground, it was just in time for a second strike. It's cheap, don't take advantage of it! Hong Tao usually educates his subordinates in this way, they must maximize their interests in everything, and if they can kill ten, then they must not kill nine.

The Mongol army was indeed very military-literate, and when the shelling took place, everyone was stupid, and many horses were frightened and began to run in all directions. But in less than half a minute, they reacted, and did not break up directly like the Javanese, nor did they go to the formation as stupidly as the Jin infantry in the lion's mouth. Under the command of the middle and lower rank officers, some of them began to run to the high ground, trying to rescue the commander-in-chief, while others took bows and arrows, waded through the water, and stepped on the mud to get as close as possible to the center of the river, trying to use archery to interfere with the enemy's big ships, and some of them turned back and ran towards the barracks, running in an organized manner, not breaking up.

The time of two minutes was fleeting, Kong Pei made full use of the advantage of the anti-epidemic ship, and used the lower sail to make the ship slightly rushed back by the river for dozens of meters, and then raised the full sail to adjust the angle of the hull, and sailed back again, at this time the second round of shelling began again. The Mongol soldiers, who had just lined up three or four layers on the high ground with shields, and were going to escort the soldiers behind them to rescue the generals, were flattened by a large iron ball like a shaved head.

Then, a strange thing appeared on the north bank of the Han River under the city of Xiangyang. Kong Pei's two battleships would sometimes go backwards and advance at a time, and every two or three minutes there would be a salvo; The Mongol soldiers on the shore rushed to the high ground one by one, confronting them with shields and bodies and shells. The small plateau about a mile offshore, no more than a dozen meters high, and a radius of only a few hundred square meters became a battlefield of flesh and metal. People fell down in a row and rushed up in a row, so that the later shells hit the ground and didn't jump up much, one was that the land was hit by the shells more and more soft, and more importantly, a layer of human flesh was piled on top, which absorbed the kinetic energy of the shells well.

After ten rounds of shelling, the soldiers who had run back to the camp finally returned, pushing large wooden planks with wheels. Kong Pei thought that this thing should be used for siege, and that people hiding behind thick planks could defend against bow and arrow shooting and stone smashing on the city wall, and now they planned to use this thing to defend against artillery bombardment. Being able to think of this idea in such a short period of time really shows that the Mongolian army has a high level of tactical literacy, and even the main general is gone, and it is still not disrupted, and it can organize an effective defense.

But on the other hand, the idea is a bad idea. Relying on the bombardment of artillery shells alone is at most a trip to the people on the line, and now with these thick wooden planks, not only can they not stop the trajectory of the shells, but they are also equivalent to expanding the killing area of the shells. The thick wooden planks penetrated by the shells will burst out a lot of wood fragments backwards, and these fragments are like shrapnel, which is a big hole when it touches the human body, and it is still fatal to burrow into the body, and it is not easy to pull out, and it is easier to cut the blood vessels around the wound. (To be continued.) )