However, the pitch angle of the naval gun cannot be too large, because there is a gun door to restrict, and the muzzle of the gun is raised too high, so the naval gun can generally only be adjusted between zero and octave. Why were all the ancient sail warships afraid of land batteries? The reason is here, the cannon of the turret can hit the battleship, but the cannon of the battleship cannot hit the battery, unless the battery is particularly low, once it exceeds the upper firing range of the ship's gun, the battleship is a live target. Most of the batteries were built on the hills on either side of the harbor, so for a sail battleship, the batteries were a nightmare.

There are no forts in the port of Lion's Mouth, and there are no tall buildings or mountains in the harbor, which is an excellent thing for the extended firing of naval guns. At a distance of less than two thousand meters, it is enough to raise the muzzle of the gun by about four degrees, and if it is raised to an octave angle, the 155 gun can hit a solid bullet to a distance of 3 kilometers. As for the left and right angles, that's the matter of the anchor chain soldiers, and on sailing warships, there is a special class that is responsible for adjusting the length of the anchor chains. Don't underestimate this profession, after the two iron anchors in front of the battleship fall, the lateral angle is adjusted by these two iron anchors, which side of the anchor chain is tightened, which side of the anchor chain is relaxed, you can make the side of the battleship slightly adjust the angle, so that the naval guns can aim left and right.

The reason why Hong Tao dared to let Swan's father lead more than 300 people to charge the Mongol infantry formation, which was ten times more than him and also carried spearmen, was because there were naval guns to use. There was only one way for infantry to deal with cavalry, and that was formation, and a tightly packed formation could be like a swamp, slowing down the cavalry and then drowning them. Once the formation is lost. Especially when retreating. If you are bitten by cavalry. The end of the infantry will be very miserable, and there is basically no way to resist.

What can I do to break the formation of the infantry? Generally speaking, it is to use archers to grind slowly, or simply use their own infantry to go up to the group to fight, and then use cavalry to attack, but it is not 100% effective. If the opponent's infantry is well-trained, some of the infantry will be divided to deal with the infantry, and the other infantry will still be in full formation. The cavalry still didn't have a point. Of course, this is when there are more infantry than cavalry, and if there are as many infantry as cavalry, then the cavalry will not have to work so hard, and a charge, losing a small part of the cavalry, will break up the infantry formation.

Now Hong Tao doesn't have to work so hard, he has a cannon. This thing hits it, whether it is accurate or not, if the opposing infantry can still stand still. Then Hong Tao will withdraw his troops! Convinced, if you don't fight, you can't do it? Your infantry is too powerful. I can't beat it. But are there any infantry in the world who stand still and wait for the big iron ball to blow up? Anyway, Hong Tao didn't have it in his memory, even Napoleon's infantry phalanx was braving the rain of bullets while marching. And when the army fights, there is not so much artillery, unlike the navy, where a fleet can top the number of artillery of an army corps.

As a puff of smoke erupted from the No. 1 gun emplacement, the five battleships immediately fell into a cloud of smoke again, and the harbor was like a boiling pot, and the loud shouts could not be heard at all, only your mouth could be seen. What about the effect of shelling? You don't need to report with a lookout, Hong Tao can see it himself, and it is miserable to describe it in an idiom!

Most of the shells did not fall into the Mongol infantry phalanx, a few thousand, even if they stood closely, they would have to be more than ten acres of land, right? It is a pity that even with such a large area, it is still not as large as the current firing dispersion area of front-loading artillery. Fortunately, a small number of shells hit the target and exploded.

At this time, the Mongol infantry was completely chaotic, and no one needed to say anything about the tragedy that happened to those cavalrymen, they could see it themselves. Thousands of people and horses were gone in an instant, and the hundred and ten people who were lucky enough to run back were the same as those fished out of the blood plasma, and many horses still had other people's internal organs hanging on their buttocks. And now again? No one is a fool, isn't this the kind of sound that beats the cavalry to minced meat? The companions next to him were indeed blown up to a blur of flesh and blood, so what are you waiting for? Run! People can't fight with the gods, this Nima has come down to the sky, and he still holds a spear and has eggs.

As long as one person thinks so and does so, there will be a chain reaction. The Mongol infantry, who were already a little suspicious, had already dropped their weapons and started running backwards before the first round of artillery bombardment was completely completed. By this time, Swan's father's cavalry had rushed to a distance of two hundred meters, and the horses that were trotting in small steps began to increase their pace, and were about to enter the final state of charge. The spear array, which had been blocked in front, was scattered, just to make way for these heavy cavalry, so the two columns that planned to fight hard turned into a horizontal long snake formation as they ran under the command of Swan's father's scimitar. The Mamluk cavalrymen, who were wrapped in iron armor, began to beat their cuirass with their scimitars, and the horses under their crotches did not need to be whipped, and they knew what to do, and immediately increased their pace again, and entered the sprint from trot.

The fleeing infantry was swept by the heavy cavalry, and it was so close, the result was that like wheat being harvested by a sickle, there was no need to play with the slash, only the scimitar needed to be slightly extended, and with the impact speed of the war horse, it flew when it touched the head, and it was a big hole on the human body. Want to get out of the way? No way, once these 300 or so Mamluk cavalry are lined up, there is not much space to drill, unless you can move quickly to either side of them. It's a pity that human legs can't outrun horses' legs, and most of the infantry was harvested in this way.

This was not the end, the Mamluk cavalry only rushed more than 200 meters away, and the formation changed again. They shrank back into the center, and became two columns again, passing through the middle of the Mongol infantry. After running out for a hundred and ten meters, he suddenly stretched out to both sides like a wild goose, turned the horse's head around, and came back from back to front.

"Your father was a tactician and an artist, and I've never seen cavalry do this, so take me to pay my respects to him." Hong Tao stood far away and could see the panorama of the battlefield, and he quickly understood what Swan's father was doing, he was going to make dumplings for the Mongol infantry. The infantry would not continue to run forward, to fight these ironclad cavalry, they would instinctively turn around and run backwards, that is, towards the docks. The problem is that between them and the dock, there are still hundreds of Mamluk axemen who have been drawn into a skirmish line and walked for half a day. When the cavalry began to turn around, these axemen, too, as if they had received some order, under the leadership of the commander, turned their walk into a trot.

"Bang Bang...... Boom ...... ......The sound from the battlefield made Hong Tao blush. This is the sound of the large barrels and kegs he designed in the middle of the process, very much like the sound of a large pile of broken tin cans, very harsh, not good at all, and more importantly, there is no momentum at all, how messy and messy.

The sound is indeed not good, but the axemen play no worse role than the cavalry. In the face of scattered enemy routs, large axes are much more fierce than scimitars, and large axes are even more terrifying. There was a big axe in front and a scimitar in the back, and the Mongol infantry immediately stopped running and surrendered on their knees, and the remaining part of the land that planned to resist to the end became the target of the Langya Marine Corps.

They have horses, but they don't have to follow the charge, and they even follow the axemen all the time to watch the excitement. As soon as he saw that there was an advantage to be taken, he immediately rushed out, and a dozen people formed a small team to pursue the infantry who had escaped by chance. They were all light cavalry, they didn't wear anything but leather armor, and they ran fast. Moreover, they have completely inherited Hong Tao's concept, and on the battlefield, they judge friends and foes by the life and death of 100%, and all the routs they catch up with will be killed by crossbow arrows. Only the dead and those who are going to die are good people, Hong Tao taught!

The reinforcements of more than 3,000 people were wiped out in less than an hour and a half, and only more than 1,100 people who finally surrendered, and more than 300 wounded, were all clicked on the spot by the axemen. This time it was not Hong Tao's order, but Swanta's father, not only Hong Tao didn't want to be injured, but he didn't want it, at this point, the two of them were completely consistent, and the reasons were exactly the same. Wounded soldiers can't be fed, early death and late death are death, so why bother to suffer that sin again.

The rest of the matter is to clean up the battlefield and interrogate the prisoners, in fact, there is nothing to clean, the equipment of the Mongol infantry is not only unsightly for Hong Tao, but also for the Mamluks, it is useless, they don't need it. The matter of interrogation is even simpler, after those axe soldiers hacked hundreds of people to death in front of the captives, Lang Ya will not have the slightest prevarication to ask anyone, and he will say everything.

"There are still more than 300 cavalry in Golden State? Shipbuilding is taking place there? Okay, hurry up and pack up, before dark, let's go to Golden State again, tonight is destined to be a sleepless night. The results of the interrogation quickly reached Hong Tao's hands, and after reading it, he finally showed that long-lost evil smile, which showed that he had relaxed his spirit.

This army of more than 4,000 people is the main force of all the garrisons in Jinzhou and Shishikou, and their camp is more than 20 kilometers away, and there are still more than 10 kilometers away from Jinzhou. At present, there are not many troops in Jinzhou City except for a few hundred real Mongolian cavalry. These hundreds of Mongol cavalry were not garrisons stationed in Jinzhou, but were sent by the Mongols to the private army of the general, who was said to be the prince of the kings, who was supervising the construction of ships in Jinzhou and preparing to cooperate with the army to attack the Koreans.

Don't look at the Marine Corps who are not very smart in fighting, and they are super smart when they cause sabotage. When Hong Tao gave the order to clean up, Lang Ya led the Marines to pick 100 people from the prisoners, let them carry heavy oil barrels and gunpowder barrels, and scattered them to various places in the docks and shipyards to carry out demolition and arson work. Soon this beautiful little harbor turned into a sea of fire, which was the result of Hong Tao's order not to use too much heavy oil, otherwise it would not be just a sea of fire, but a hell of black smoke. (To be continued.) )