readx;?readx; Chapter 681 is a small test

Seeing that the Qin army was launched, the Chu army was not to be outdone, and immediately blew the horn of advance, and countless warships bravely met the enemy, and the battle finally began. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

When they reached the center, the Qin navy suddenly divided into several small fleets and attacked the left flank of the Chu army from different angles, preparing to concentrate on attacking one place, so that the huge Chu army could not exert its full strength.

As soon as the Qin army's intentions were detected, the left wing slowly retreated, while the right wing advanced at the same speed, and the front of the formation slowly deflected to the left, always facing the Qin army. Forward and backward as you like, this is the advantage of the paddle steamer.

At this time, if the Qin army continued to advance in the original direction, it would expose its right side to the Chu army, which would be very dangerous.

However, there is no need to worry about them, after all these years of baptism of war, the Zhennan Navy has fully matured and reached the peak state of the world. I saw that they quickly raised their sails, and suddenly accelerated by the northwest wind on the river, and soon redistanced themselves from the Chu army.

Zhulie sent a detachment of 200 pulp steamers to also raise their sails and follow the pursuing Qin army. The Qin fleet seemed unwilling to meet the enemy with this awkward posture, so it once again increased its speed and gradually broke away from the range of the Chu army.

When the main fleet of the Zhennan Navy sailed over, the officers and soldiers of Chu who were chasing Zhenghuan were surprised to find that the Chinese fleet of the Qin State did not follow to the south, but used the main fleet as a cover, quietly broke away from the main formation, and rushed towards him.

At this time, the detachment of Southern Chu was facing due south, while the Chinese fleet of the Qin army swooped straight over from the southeast, facing the flank of the Chu army!

On the battlefield, the flanks of the army are extremely vulnerable. Once attacked by the enemy, it is easy to be cut off by the waist, and then unable to take care of both the beginning and the end, and fall into the situation of being beaten by a group, basically nine dead and one disabled.

The commander of the Central Fleet of the Qin Army is Qin Youde, who has become a white-bearded man, and the generals in Zhennan are generally amphibious, and the water is stronger than the land, so when it comes to the water battle, he, the presidential leader of the infantry army, has become the most adept at assault out of the water dragon.

Under the leadership of Qin Youdetou's ship, the Chinese fleet was full of firepower while penetrating directly into the flank of the Chu army, almost without any tactics, and recklessly ramming.

The Chu army was powerless for a while...... Because in order to increase the shooting accuracy of the catapult and reduce the damage to the battleship when it is launched, the two ** ships are directly fixed the catapult on the deck, generally six in the front and four in the back, and there are also large ships that can install more cannons. But in any case, in order to avoid sinking or even rolling, no one dared to install slingers on the sides of the ship on both sides - so before turning around, the threat of the Chu army to the Qin army was equal to zero, which is why the two armies desperately rushed to attack each other's flanks.

How could Qin Youde let go of this hard-won battlefield advantage, he adopted the method of concentrated attack, and ordered five warships to attack according to an enemy ship.

After the target is confirmed, the tactical staff officer assigned to each ship calculates the advance and communicates the firing parameters to the gunner, so that the shooting accuracy is greatly improved. Coupled with the intensive firing of five dozen and one, almost all of the 30 battleships that were targeted were shot and caught fire in the first shot, and countless officers and men on board were killed and wounded.

After a few volleys, the deck of the Chu battleship was already mostly a sea of fire...... However, although it looks terrifying, such a short attack, at best, is to smash a few holes, burn a few fires or something, as long as the damage is properly managed and the fire is extinguished, the ship will not be destroyed and people will die.

However, the warships of the Chu State were already in chaos, because the fire must be saved, and the holes must also be plugged, otherwise the battleships will be burned or flooded. Moreover, the Chu army did not have a special damage management team, so as soon as the situation appeared, it fell into a hurry, and even ignored the order issued by the flagship to 'complete the turn immediately'.

However, at this moment of chaos, Zhu Hongjun was extremely sober, in fact, at the moment when Qin Youde's ship appeared, he had already determined the direction of the enemy's attack, and accurately foresaw that while the Qin army attacked the flank of his detachment, it would also expose its own flank.

Therefore, at the same time as the Qin army launched, he sent a detachment of troops, compared to the gourd, and also used the fleet attacked by the Qin army as a cover, until he could not hide his tracks, he suddenly killed the front and went straight to Qin Youde's flank.

Qin Youde didn't care, he ordered all the ships to do their best to increase the speed to the fastest, and before the Chu army could kill, he had already rushed into the chaotic prey group first.

As soon as the chaotic scene was cleaned up, the officers and men of the Chu army's detachment found in despair that the Qin warships were actually chopping the waves, rushing over and crashing into it fiercely, accompanied by the deafening sound of collision and the sound of wooden beams breaking, several warships of the Chu State were broken by the waist, and the officers and soldiers were killed and injured countless times.

According to the plan formulated by Marshal Bo Xian before his death, the warships of the Qin army in this battle were all equipped with thick iron ramming angles three zhang long, and they were mainly engaged in hand-to-hand collision and broadside combat.

Although more Chu ** ships were hit hard, they still stubbornly floated on the water, but the officers and men were not as strong as the battleships, and they fell into the water one after another in the huge impact. The officers and men on the ship screamed and fell into the water, and the artillery and equipment piled up on the deck were also knocked into the sky, and then crackled into the water, killing many unlucky sailors.

At this time, the second detachment of the Chu State also rushed over, but when they saw the warships of the two armies that had been in a mess and did not distinguish each other, they made a mistake - you must know that the quasi-head of the Chu army's slinger cannon is not covered, and basically the error within ten zhang is considered to be normal. It is really debatable whether to deal with such a situation with such accuracy and whether there are more casualties to the enemy or more friendly troops by mistake.

In the battles between the two armies in recent years, the naval armies of Qin and Chu have always pursued non-contact combat, that is, they opened a distance and shot each other with artillery stones to see who could hit accurately and who was lucky. As we all know, the Chu army's catapults were inferior to the Qin army in terms of range and accuracy, and the reason why they were able to maintain the balance of power in this mutual fire was to win by quantity - one was the large number of warships, and the other was the large number of catapults on each battleship.

The Qin army's slings were the first six and the last four, a total of ten, while the Qi army had at least six or fourteen in the first eight and the back, and there were as many as twenty on the large ships. One more cannon means more space, one more group of gunners, and one more shell. According to the original staffing, there would be no place for these ten or eight more catapults.

What to do? Attrition and relocation of places. The officers looked around the ship, and the steering, rowing, loading, and artillery were all inseparable, so the only way to do this was to reduce the combat team. Anyway, now that the two sides don't meet, why do you need so many combat teams to do? If it weren't for the sober-mindedness of Zhu Lie and the strict order to keep at least one team of white-knuckle fighters on each ship, the generals of the Chu army would be able to drive all the fighters down.

But who would have thought that this time the Qin army would give up the 'artillery bombardment tactics' they were good at, and turn to the docking tactics instead?

Seeing that the reinforcements of the Chu State hesitated, Qin Youde was unceremonious and ordered the combatants on the battleship who had long been on standby to fire spear hooks at the Chu ship. As soon as the distance is closed, the pedal with the hook on it is stretched out and firmly attached to the enemy ship. grabbed the side of the ship with a hook and claw, and Chu Jun couldn't move even if he wanted to lift the pedal.

The next moment, there was a group of Qin troops, who quickly passed the pedal, jumped on the enemy ship, formed a mandarin duck formation or a three-talent formation, and stood together with the Chu army that was in a hurry to meet the enemy.

The powerful Mandarin Duck Formation seems to be tailor-made for broadside battles, because of space constraints, the soldiers will not have too many enemies to face at a time, and with a few wolf rods and a few shields, they can easily block most of the attacks.

When the defense is worry-free, its ferocious attack power can be brought into full play. The fighting soldiers of the Chu army met them, and after a while, they were completely killed, and the artillerymen and sailors also took up their weapons and rushed up, and they were also killed.

Seeing the huge advantage of the Qin army's white-knuckle battle, many Chu troops jumped into the water, hoping to escape with their lives, but were shot by the archers on the Qin warship with crossbow arrows.

The Qin soldiers rushed under the ship again, slashed the linkage rod of its paddle wheel, and then quickly left the paralyzed enemy ship and moved on to the next one.

In the blink of an eye, dozens of Chu ships were destroyed or even sunk, and Zhu Hongjun's eyes were on fire, and he said like thunder: "Let Team B fight me, and if you hesitate, you will be executed immediately!" ”

The Chu army's B-shaped sub-fleet finally no longer hesitated, and launched the tens of thousands of catties of stone bullets that had been prepared, and the stone bullets of the Chu State are also very distinctive, in addition to the solid bullets used to smash the ship, they also have the so-called'scattered flower bombs' - after being smashed by the Qin army's flowering bombs, Shangzhu State strictly ordered the craftsmen to develop similar artillery shells, and the craftsmen racked their brains and really came up with a good way - they put the chiseled stone bullets on the fire and baked them, and when the stones were hot, they were immersed in cold water, The principle of thermal expansion and cold contraction is used to make the stone elastic open pattern.

If repeated several times, the originally solid and solid artillery shell cracked countless cracks from the inside out, and when it was beaten, it shattered into pieces of stone with sharp edges. The craftsmen of the Chu State wrapped the finished artillery bullets tightly with hemp chips, and only untied the skin when they put the cannon nest on them, and the lethality of the authentic goods of the Qin State was not inferior to that of the Qin State after being released.