Touch! Touch! Touch!

Poof! Poof! Poof!.

Bursts of bombardment, bursts of falling water, with bursts of wailing......

The soldiers in Liu Xuan's army watched a pile of stones fall on him, but he didn't know what to do.

Dozens of pounds of stone bullets not only brought up piles of wood chips, but also pieces of flesh and blood.

The 20 ships that were driving in the front were instantly disrupted by the sudden blow. More than half of the ship's hull was damaged by stone bullets.

Some boats were smashed to a stop, some boats were smashed and turned indiscriminately, and the side of a ship was directly smashed into a big hole, and the head of an oarsman sitting next to him was smashed to pieces in an instant, so frightened that the oarsmen in a cabin were stunned on the ground, staring blankly at the headless corpse in front of them, and did not react for a long time.

The chambers on the deck of the ship were used to defend against bows and arrows, and they were not able to resist dozens or hundreds of pounds of stone bullets.

Many of the soldiers in the room were stoned to death on the spot, because they stood too densely, and some of them even killed and injured several people at one time.

They couldn't see what was going on, and the sudden blow stunned these people in an instant, and their commander had just told them not to be afraid of the enemy yet, but they were immediately killed by a big rock.

A hundred rounds of stone projectiles, from a distance, it seems that there is only less than 1/5 of the hit rate, but hitting 20 ships, it is scary enough, on average, each ship has been hit by a shot, and it is a stone against wood, all of which are highly destructive damage, and even a few ships have begun to leak, if there is no way to repair it, it may sink on the spot in a while.

The naval battles of the Han Dynasty were generally based on broadside battles, and few ships would be directly sunk, so it seems that the leaking ships have not been effectively remedied, perhaps because they have no preparation and experience in this area, so that the hull is getting more and more crooked, and it looks like it is about to die, and it may only be a matter of time before it sinks.

……

"What is this, what is this?" On Liu Jun's flagship, the deputy general was startled when he saw the tragic warp in front of him, "Did they build a trebuchet?" ”

"Your trebuchet is flat!" Zhang Ying was also taken aback, and her previous disdainful and smug expressions were already frightened.

"General, what are we going to do?" The adjutant general hurriedly asked.

"Shoot! Shoot! Shoot me with bows and arrows! I don't believe that so many of us and so many ships can shoot a few of their inexplicable stone cannons! Zhang Ying scolded and ordered.

"No!"

……

Yuan Yao, who was on the platform, felt very happy when he saw the effect of this blow from the fort. This hit rate is much more enjoyable than his gun shooting on a battleship. With a distance of more than a hundred paces and a 1/5 hit rate, this was simply impossible for a battleship. 50 steps to be able to hit this steady attack, and he will burn high incense.

"Thunderbolt ignition."

Seeing that the fort was already powerful, Liu Ye had no need to hide and tuck, and began to order the Thunderbolt array to prepare for the attack.

Because trebuchets are not picky eaters about stone bullets, they can be used in any specification, so Liu Ye ordered people to wrap straw ropes around these stone bullets, and dipped them in fire oil, and then project them out after lighting the fire, which has more burning damage than ordinary stone bullets, which is a simplified version of the incendiary bomb.

Because the cost of fire oil bombs is too high, Liu Ye came up with this method, but it can only be used by trebuchets, and ballistas are not good, because ballistas have high requirements for the smoothness of stone bullets, and it is completely irregular when wrapped around the straw rope, which will seriously affect the hit rate.

The exclusive incendiary bomb of the ballista is a jar of fire oil, a can of fire oil is about 10 catties, or 50 yuan; 10 yuan a clay pot; The total cost of a fire oil bomb is about 60 yuan, which is much more expensive than stone, so it is not suitable for large-scale use, and can only be installed in small quantities.

When Liu Ye gave the order, the gunners of the trebuchet ignited the loaded stone shells one by one, and then under Liu Ye's order, 64 incendiary bombs were thrown out.

The target of the incendiary bomb was not the rush ahead, but a group of 12 fighting ships 300 paces away.

The 12 fighting ships of Liu Xuan's navy are densely arranged together in a regular triangle.

They were too careless, including the ships that had been beaten before, and they were all arranged in a dense formation.

But this is not to blame them, because they have to attack fewer targets with nearly double the number, and they have no choice but to stick tightly together in one, and try to discharge the absolute advantage formation of two against one, but unfortunately it is in the hands of Yuan Jun.

The 12 fighting ships drove into the shooting Zhuyuan marked by Liu Ye, and the 64 incendiary bombs thrown by the trebuchet smashed directly on their heads as expected, and the hit rate was even higher than that of the ballista.

Shooting Zhuyuan is a matter of repeated training, and it is possible to anticipate in advance which area the enemy will most likely enter, so it is completely possible to practice accuracy in advance, so the trebuchet, which had the lowest hit rate, instead played a higher hit rate than a ballista, which has to be said to be a technological advancement.

Another point is that the fighting ship is too fat, and it is much easier to fight than the ship.

……

"It's a trebuchet, it's definitely a trebuchet!" On Liu Jun's flagship, the deputy general who was almost hit shouted loudly in fright.

"your grandma's trebuchet!" Zhang Ying was so angry that he kicked him to the ground.

……

The soldiers on Liu Jun's fighting ship were all smashed, they looked at the beaten ship in front of them, and before they could figure out what was going on, they were taken care of by the focus.

They didn't expect the enemy's long-range weapons to hit so far, and it was not the first time that trebuchets were used in coastal defense facilities, but because of their low hit rate, most of them were used to make splashes to intimidate the enemy.

But now that all 12 ships have been hit, it's a bit scary.

The 11 fighting ships were smashed with blood, none of them did not die, and the remaining one was slightly lucky, and was hit by hundreds of pounds of boulders on the side of the ship, although there were no casualties, but it also made a big gap in the hull, fortunately it was far from the waterline, otherwise it would definitely sink.

This is also a disadvantage of trebuchets, the projectile is difficult to hit the waterline, so it is not easy to knock the ship out of the water leakage, which is not as good as a flat-firing ballista.

However, the cannonballs of trebuchets are larger than ballistas, and hundreds of catties of boulders can be thrown effortlessly, and in terms of destructive power alone, they are much larger than ballistas.

In short, like the bed crossbow, relatively speaking, each has its own advantages and disadvantages, and each has its own usefulness, which is not suitable for direct comparison.

In the face of an unexpected blow, Liu Xuan's sailors made a low-level mistake, the oarsmen even stopped paddling in the whole army, and stupidly reduced their speed within the opponent's range, which was very easy to receive continuous blows.

Balistas and trebuchets are not very slow to reload, and are even slightly faster than the front-loading guns of later generations.

Take the ballista as an example, the process of reloading it is only two steps -

Turn the winch to wind, hang the string, put the stone bullet on the magazine, and then you can aim. A fast and skilled gunner can complete the operation in about a minute. Unlike front-loading guns, you have to clear the chamber, you have to charge, you have to load eggs, you have to add a fuse, and so on!

So the second wave of ballista attacks came very quickly.

It is better to cut off one of its fingers than to hurt its five fingers. The target of this round of ballistas is still the ship that was scarred before, because if the 20 ships can be completely sunk, then the proportion of the size of the two armies will be pulled in a lot in an instant.

Compared with the fighting ships, the number of ships of Liu Yao's navy is exactly twice that of Yuan Yao's army, and if it is a frontal station, Yuan Yao's ships will face the consequences of one against two, which is almost inevitable defeat on the water.

And Yuan Yao's fighting ships have built eight, and Liu Yao's 12 ships are about to get closer, even if they fight directly, if the soldiers are brave, they may be able to close the gap, at least not to fight at all.

Therefore, if all these 20 ships can be destroyed, then the number of ships of Liu Yao's navy will be as low as 40, which is not much different from Yuan Yao's 30 ships. In that case, it may be possible to launch an attack on Koto in advance, and if it does, it will save a lot of time.

This was one of the goals of Cao's plan to join the army during the war.