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By the light on the mast lights, they could clearly see nearly 100 sand boats in the port, and there were 20 red single boats moored near the sand boats, and hundreds of ships were tied up in a pile in the port. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

"We won this battle!"

Almost after discovering that those red single boats were tied into a pile, Shen Ming's original hanging heart was relieved, this attack was essentially a sneak attack, as the first battle of the fleet, Shen Ming did not want to take any risks, and because of this, he would order the fleet to assemble in the Wuhu area, take advantage of the night to cross the Zhenjiang River, and wait in the river, waiting for night to fall, in order to give these Cantonese a surprise attack.

As the distance got closer, even enough to see the panicked sailors on the Red Boat, every sailor on the Yangtze River fleet looked extremely nervous, they had already loaded their shells a few minutes before, and when the order was given, they would ring the firing, and when they were less than a hundred feet away from Shijiao Harbor, the sailors could already see that the enemy was loading the artillery.

"Sir!"

When the sailors shouted nervously, and the gun commander's hand pulled the fire rope tightly, and his eyes turned to Li Tianfang, he just spit out two words in a deep voice while standing in the stern.

"Accurate!"

If the rigorous training taught the sailors anything, it was the observance of discipline, and although sweat was dripping from their foreheads, and although they were so nervous that they even burst out of breath, there was no movement, just squatting on the sides of the guns as they had done in the past.

Seeing this scene, Wells, who was standing beside Li Tianfang and wearing the uniform of the British Royal Navy, nodded gently, and the strict training for half a year made these boatmen on Dongting Lake become sailors and soldiers.

"Ready!"

His eyes stared at the red single boat in the harbor, Shen Ming turned a blind eye to the chaotic sailors on the boat, he just stared at the gun window on the red single boat, and at the moment when the gun window opened and the gun barrel stretched out, an angry roar burst out from his throat.

"Put!"

At the moment when his words fell, the gunners of the ship immediately pulled the fare cord, and at the moment when the artillery retreated violently, the huge cannon flame instantly lit up the night sky, and the fiery red cannon flame lit up Jiangnan.

The "Chu Feng" outside the fleet's pilot position opened fire first, and after the "Chu Feng" opened fire, the "Chu Yu" and "Chu Yang" also opened fire, and in an instant, Shijiao Harbor was lit up by red cannon flames.

"Be careful......

At the moment when he saw a ball of cannon flames gushing out of the gun window of the enemy ship, and the fireworks reflected the surface of the river, Wang Tou immediately shouted loudly. At the moment when his words fell, he vaguely saw a bullet flying slowly towards the ship, he had encountered pirates countless times, he knew that this cannonball looked slow, and even made people feel that they could catch it, but in fact, if someone blocked it, it would definitely be torn to pieces.

That is, in the black shadow that flew slowly in the cannon flame, it was faintly visible that there seemed to be a little spark in it, and at this moment, the cannonball pierced the side of the ship, although the red single ship was a large ship made for sea navigation, and the hull was extremely strong, but it still could not be compared with the Western ships, let alone the warships, those eighteen-pound, twenty-four-pound shells instantly smashed the hull of the red single boat.

At the moment when the cannonball shattered the planks and sawdust on the side of the ship, some people were hit by the cannonball, tearing their bodies to pieces, and in that scream, Wang Tou saw a black shadow almost flying against his head between the sawdust and flying, the black shadow first hit the board behind the ship, and then bounced into the distance, and when he was secretly glad that he was alive, he saw a cannonball on the deck turning, and one end of the cannonball was spraying sparks.

"Blossom Bomb!"

At the moment when this thought first came to mind, the cannonball exploded!

It was not just a shell that exploded, but dozens of shells that exploded continuously, and the huddled red single boat immediately exploded into a ball of flames, and in the rising flames, the red single boat instantly became a mess, and the cast iron fragments that exploded when the cannonballs exploded flew horizontally on the deck and the hull at the speed of sound, harvesting the human body at the same time, but also shattering everything around, even the powder keg was shattered by iron sheets, and the gunpowder that was flying away was detonated by Mars.

Suddenly, a violent explosion sounded from a red single boat, and the entire Shijiao port was stunned by the red explosion, and the violent explosion even directly blew up a nearby red single boat.

"It worked!"

Shen Ming clenched his fist hard and shouted excitedly.

"We succeeded! Grenades can sink warships! ”

At this time, Shen Ming's whole person seemed extremely excited, firing grenades in naval battles, which was almost a pioneering feat, for the navies of various countries in this period, they either followed the tactics of the British, and constantly bombarded the opponent's waterline with solid bullets in naval battles, or bombarded each other's masts and rigging with chain bullets like the French, or the two sides approached and bombarded each other's gunners with shotguns, but almost no navy tried to attack each other's warships with grenades.

"As I said, their hulls are thin, and the grenades we use with thickened bodies can penetrate their hulls!"

Major Clounn was extremely calm in the face of the Admiral's excitement, it was he who made the suggestion in the first place, and they had already used grenades to attack wooden boats and conducted similar experiments during their training on Dongting Lake.

"But, Lord Admiral, please remember that a grenade may be able to penetrate the planks of these thin Chinese sailing ships, but it will not be able to penetrate the hull of the navies of various countries that are more than a foot thick, and even a 24-pound solid bullet will often be catapulted off! Your Excellency the Admiral! ”

"Of course. I know that this is just the special tactics of a special opponent, and the tactics of the Navy are flexible and do not need to be so rigid in tradition! Thank you, Clown! ”

Shen Ming's thanks were from the bottom of his heart, perhaps Clone was not a naval officer recognized by the British, but he not only taught the fleet what a navy was, but also taught the fleet how to fight.

"Actually, in naval battles, it's not that there is no chance to use grenades, in special cases, you can completely use grenades to bombard the opponent's deck, sweeping with grenade fragments...... No, that's not appropriate......"

After a moment of thought, Clone came up with a fitting term.

"Wash the opponent's deck, wash the enemy's deck with grenades!"

Clounn's disapproval in the Royal Navy was due to these "alternative" ideas, but here the nascent navy took its teachings as the Bible.

While the two of them were talking, on the deck of the "Chu Feng", the gunners were nervously busy, and after the gunners completed the first round of shelling, they did not have time to wait and see the results of their battles, but prepared for the next round of shelling in their respective positions in an almost numb way, just as they were in training.

"3 seconds!"

As soon as the gunner shouted out, the loader behind him immediately made a small hole in the predetermined thin metal covering the circular medicine channel on the disc fuse disc for 3 seconds, which was marked with a delay of 1~~10 seconds, and the end of the delay medicine channel on the metal disc was the longest detonation time, and the further in, the shorter the detonation time. The scale corresponding to the hole punched in the metal medicine disc is the precise detonation time of the fuse. Compared with the previous time-delay fuzes, the reliability and ease of use of this disc fuze have been greatly increased. Of course, the chance of blind fire is very small, in fact, this new type of fuse that has just been brought back from Europe is the reason why Shen Ming took the risk of choosing a grenade.

"Boom ......"

In the violent explosion, the entire Shijiao port was lit up by the explosion of fireworks, in the smoke cloud of the explosion, the red single ships were constantly blown into pieces, in fact, these red single ships were blown up by their own gunpowder, the explosive shells detonated the gunpowder near the gun position, and the violent martyrdom made the sailors on the ship, there was almost no room to fight back.

Almost at the moment when the cannon sounded, Chen Guotai, who was sleeping on the bed with the prostitute in his arms, pushed away the prostitute in his arms, and rushed out with a foreign gun, he didn't even have to get dressed, and when he rushed out of the yard, he was immediately stunned by the scene in front of him, the twenty red single boats that were still moored in the harbor before, this would have turned into a pile of burning fire.

The flames were burning wildly, and several Western ships outside the harbor were still spitting out cannonballs, and around the burning and constantly exploding red single boats, there were all sailors who had fallen into the water and swam towards the shore in terror.

"It's over, it's over, it's all over......"

Chen Guotai couldn't stop muttering, and Wu Quanmei, who had just rushed out of the door, trembled in shock, and muttered with a pale face.

"This, this shouldn't be a foreign devil to kill, right......?"

Looking at the foreign ships outside the port, and then looking at the round of shelling, Chen Guotai said in a loud voice.

"Ken, it must be a foreigner, a foreigner, a foreigner called......"

This will Chen Guotai seems to have regained some confidence, but his confidence is not the confidence to fight, but the reason he has found a reason, a reason to escape.

"Yes, yes, it's a foreigner, that's right, it's a foreigner, except for those foreign devils, whose cannon can fight so powerfully, and this foreign ship, Brother Bishan, this foreign devil is coming, let's, let's run away......"

"Run?"

Wu Quanmei listened to this escape word, and just when he was surprised, he heard Chen Guotai say there again.

"Brother Bishan, this, this court can't beat foreign devils, aren't we just practicing knives for foreign devils here, besides, the court must also know that this news is not ......"

"But, but the food here ......"

Before Wu Quanmei's words were finished, Chen Guotai said angrily.

"If you return the food and don't leave, it is estimated that we will have to let those foreign devils light the sky lanterns. When the time comes, who will bring this news to the imperial court ......" (To be continued.) )