Chapter 395: This Defeat Is Not a Crime of War!

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Guo Nan felt the warship under his feet tremble violently under the sound of cannons. The distance between the ship under his feet and the Qing warship was already three or four hundred meters, and the probability of the cannonball hitting the warship was greatly increased. This shot hit the bow of his ship.

A large hole was cut in the hull of the ship, and the cannonball hit the left side and penetrated, and Guo Nan heard a series of click-click-click-bar sounds in the cabin below. And the left side of the bow was rotten with a big hole, and when I looked at it from a distance, I thought it was a big ship eye on the outboard side of the bow.

Guo Fuhai, the pipe band of the ship, is Guo Nan's cousin, and of course the sound of the wooden planks cracking was heard in the loud sound of being shot. Immediately shouted to the frightened sailors around him: "Look at the cabin, look at the cabin? ”

If the upper part of the bow of the ship is shot, it will not be flooded, but if the internal cabin is seriously damaged, it will greatly affect the stability and toughness of the bow structure, and it will have a great impact on the life and speed of the warship. After this battle, the ship must be overhauled!

"My lord, only two layers of partitions have been penetrated, and they have been repaired." The sound of miscellaneous things sounded in Guo Fuhai's ears only after a few moments. Guo Fuhai and Guo Nan's nervous expressions immediately relaxed. The losses were not large, and the keels of the lower layers were not damaged, so at least such a wound did not delay the battle at hand.

"Boom, boom, boom ......" was fired four times in a row, and Guo Fuhai and Guo Nan felt a shock under their feet. I saw a cloud of green smoke rising from the left side of the ship, and through the green smoke Guo Nan's telescope, the fire flashed twice in succession on a Qing army ship that was moving fast!

"Hit!? Luck so good? Guo Nan was overjoyed, Fang Cai's four shells were all hot shells, and four shells could come to a second company? Really bless Mazu Niangniang!

Guo Nan and Guo Fuhai glanced at each other, and they could both see the smiles and endless surprises in each other's eyes.

"Attention helmsman! Swing the rudder right and accelerate to the southwest! "The cannon on the left side of the ship has already fired, pull the oblique direction, and the cannon on the right side will also be able to hit. Guo Fuhai yelled, and now he is yelling at everything.

At this time, two more shells landed on the perimeter of the ship. But apart from bathing the ship's hull, there was no damage.

Guo Fuhai commanded the Fengzi No. 1 ship to move towards the Qing warship with all his might. They also have rockets on board!

Three hundred meters may not be a distance, and the rockets are fleeting. The stern building of the Qing army's thunder ship was hit twice, and the deck surface was blown to pieces.

He Sihe got up from the deck again, glanced at the deck, and couldn't help but secretly rejoice in his heart, fortunately he left the stern building just now and was not directly hit, otherwise it would really be the same as the mutilated sailor corpses at the stern.

The Qing warship that had just been hit immediately returned to color. The cannon on the side of the ship roared continuously. Guo Nan also held a telescope to look at He Sihe's boat, looking at the flag hanging on the bow of the ship, this is a general military ship. As a result, there was a sudden shock under his feet, his body staggered, and he almost fell. It was his ship that was shot again, and it was bad luck. "It's a long life!" Hurriedly put down the binoculars, but the naked eye directly saw a raging fire near the stern of his own ship, accompanied by bursts of smoke.

The scorching bomb, the Qing army also called the hot bomb. Guo Nan people are stupid.

Naval battles are never one-on-one. He Sihe's general military ship has already closed the distance, and under the strong northeast monsoon, the warship cannot immediately turn around and turn back to continue to entangle with it.

Guo Nan and Guo Fuhai could only find new prey, and the warship was not shot for a while, and it seemed that the bad luck just now had passed. And He Sihe's bad luck is far from over. But He Sihe didn't know, the cannons on both sides of the ship were loaded, and he was engrossed in looking for the next target.

"Boom ......"

A series of explosions sounded on the warship. Rockets, rockets.

Four rounds in waves, four rounds in four waves, and in a short period of time, a warship of the Fu Han Army four or five hundred meters away fired four waves of a total of sixteen rockets at him.

The sixteen rockets only hit five shots, but the huge power of these five rockets made He Sihe stunned.

Once again, his body was swept away by the powerful shockwave, and the whole person fell backwards and hit the wall of the ship.

I don't know how long it took for He Sihe to recover from his dizziness, and the entire deck was already in shambles. His forehead was bleeding, and the first thing he saw was the surface of the ship, as if it had been destroyed by a storm.

The helmsmen, gunners, etc., were swept into the corners like garbage. Screams, groans of pain, and dead sailors......

He Sihe's personal soldier captain was swept by a piece of broken wood in the explosion just now, and the flesh was not very deep, when He Sihe didn't wake up, he even rolled and crawled over, and He Sihe, who regained consciousness, was still in a state of vertigo, not knowing that his left leg was also scratched by something, and the blood stained his pants black and red.

"Your Excellency, Your Majesty......"

The entire ship was emitted thick black smoke. "My lord, Chen Yi's cannonball ignited the powder keg......"

Two large openings were revealed in the side of the ship, and the stern of the ship seemed to have been gnawed by a giant beast, thick black smoke rose from it, and there was a faint flame in it. The oarsmen on the lower decks had come onto the deck, and some were already fetching water to put out the fire.

"Put out the fire. Let's withdraw, let's withdraw......" He Sihe gritted his teeth, and the blood flowing from his forehead clouded his vision with a layer of blood red.

As the sun set over the western horizon, the naval battle, which lasted more than three hours, came to an end.

The fate of the Qing army's sailors who attacked was as miserable as He Sihe's ship. Not only did they suffer a great loss in the single firepower of the warship, but they were also killed by a burst of rockets in close combat.

After the First World War, the Qing army lost 25 large and small warships, more than 2,000 officers and soldiers were killed and wounded, and the two general soldiers were all wounded.

Zhang Qiu did not order the pursuit, because the place where the two sides fought was very close to Sanmen Island, and it was not very far from Dapeng Ao. If the Fu Han army continues to pursue, the Qing army's naval division will definitely retreat to Sanmen Island and rely on the water camp and forts on the island, so that the Fu Han army may suffer losses. In naval warfare, the wind is crucial, and the strong northeast monsoon can be both good and bad.

Gan Guobao, who was stationed in Dapeng Ao, was surprised by the battle report, how could he lose so badly?

Twenty-five warships, large and small, with 2,000 officers and men killed and wounded? This, this......

Sitting back on the big chair, Gan Guobao's eyes were full of astonishment and disbelief. He has been in the army for 37 years, and has spent most of his time rolling at sea, and he does not dare to say that he is comparable to Shi Jinghai, but he also thinks that he is good. This time, the Qing army sent troops to attack, and the Qing army waited for work at ease, and the victory was quite large. How could it be so badly defeated?

"What's going on?"

His self-confidence was violently shocked and faltered. All of a sudden, his body seemed to be hollowed out, and his exuberant spirit and firm belief were all clouds that suddenly dissipated. The voice in Gan Guobao's mouth was so dry, like a dying old man.

"Yu Junmen, Wei He and the two towns have a report, and Chen Wei used a new weapon. It seems to be a two-kick and a weather that has been magnified countless times, and the launch speed is extremely fast, and the accuracy is not bad. It can hit about a mile, and the power is much greater than that of a large flowering bullet! ”

"The defeat of the officers and troops in this battle is all defeated under this weapon." The sailors of both towns were beaten by rockets.

The loss in Gan Guobao's heart paused suddenly, and the person froze, "magnified countless times the second kick and the weather??? ”

In his mind, he recalled the two kicks and the weather in his impression, magnified countless times, how many times? Much more powerful than a large flowering bullet? And how much bigger?

"How fast does that thing fire?"

The two commanders reported that it was like setting off fireworks. According to General He's words, in the blink of an eye, Chen Zhi's warship released four waves of these firebombs. The entire surface of the ship was swept through. ”

"He Zongbing had a slight injury on his head, his internal organs were slightly shaken, his right leg was scratched by shrapnel, and his lower leg was afraid that there was a bone crack."

The messenger told him everything he knew.

Gan Guobao's inner self-confidence and spirit have recovered somewhat, and it turns out that "this defeat is not a crime of war." "It's not that I'm really a waste of wood. Instead, the Fu Han army came up with a new weapon, just like the rumored flying thunder cannon, and the Qing army still can't find any good way to guard against this thing.

Now that the Fu Han army has new weapons, Gan Guobao has found the 'biggest factor' for defeat.

After Gan Guobao stabilized his mind, he wanted to bring in all his generals and discuss the next course of the war.

The generals need to know the news of the defeat, and Chen Wei's new weapons must also make them mentally prepared.

Although the news will make the morale of the whole army drop sharply.

Gan Guobao's slightly dry voice fell in the lobby, and the three chief officers on the left and right, as well as more than a dozen adjutant generals and staff generals, were all gloomy as water.

The content of Gan Guobao's words had too much impact on them.

Jieshi Town and Nanao Town, not only did not win, but they were defeated, and they were defeated very badly. Two general soldiers were wounded, twenty-five ships were destroyed and captured, and two thousand officers and men were killed or wounded. The new weapons made by the Fu Han Army are so powerful!?

"Now the northeast wind is strong, the wind is fast, and if the officers and soldiers want not to fight with them, they can only seize the upper hand." Tan Xiu, who was born in the army, is the chief soldier of Beihai Town.

He picked out a conversation and drew a circle for the rest of the conversation - not to fight in close combat with the naval division of the Fu Han army.

None of the commanders of the water divisions in Gaozhou and Qiongzhou had any objection to this, and the information that Jieshi Town and Nanao Town exchanged for them with bloody lessons, if they turned a blind eye, it would be that their brains were caught by the door.

"Not in close combat, only far away from the artillery. Then this battle will be entangled. "With the hit rate of naval artillery in this era, the distance is seven or eight hundred meters or even farther, and it is estimated that the sound of artillery will not sink two ships even if it sounds for a day.

And the most important thing is that the Qing army's naval divisions frequently seize the upper hand, what if the Fu Han army takes advantage of the situation to block Daya Bay? Will they be able to return to Dapeng Ao?

The generals and officers of the Qing army here racked their brains to think of ways to deal with it, and the water divisions of Jieshi Town and Nanao Town, which hid in the water camp of Sanmen Island, paid close attention to repairing the warships every minute, but the atmosphere on the side of the Han army was much more relaxed, and the military meeting held by Zhang Qiu and Ye Xiangde was like a tea party.

Wang Haichao and Guo Nan, who participated in the battle this afternoon, were great contributors, and they were full of praise for the rockets at the meeting, saying that the nine Qing warships they sank today and the 16 Qing warships that were captured and surrendered voluntarily should account for at least 70 or 80 percent of the credit for the rockets.

Compared with the limited accuracy of artillery shells, the limited number and slow speed, the rockets far surpassed the existing naval guns in terms of hit rate and fire density. Rockets in actual combat are really a sharp blade that kills people. (To be continued.) )