Compared to the huge Notre Dame warship, Koto's building ship is simply a child who has not grown up.

A very practical problem was in front of Han Dang, because the enemy ship was too large, if it was fired from a long distance, the enemy troops on the enemy ship could rely on the tall hull to block many of their own bow arrows. Just as the defender of the city can take advantage of the castle to avoid arrows.

If you fight at close range, being able to support such a large body means that the hull of the enemy ship is even heavier. In addition, since such a large ship can handle the tide in the sea, it also means that his hull is extremely solid. If you collide with it with a building boat, not only will you not be able to hit the other party, but you will be overturned by the other party. Even the building ships are no match for them, let alone the small ones and the spurs.

For the sake of today's plan, the only choice is to adopt the tactics of crowds, give full play to the superiority of the number of their own warships, and use a large number of small warships to surround the enemy ships and carry out close combat mooring.

But the flaws of this strategy are also obvious. The height of the enemy's ships far exceeded that of their own warships, which brought great difficulties to the docking of the naval forces. Soldiers can board the enemy ship with the help of hook ropes, but in the process, the enemy can use bows and crossbows to fight back, inflicting massive casualties on their own sailors.

Han Sui was reluctant to crush the enemy at the cost of heavy casualties, but at the moment, he couldn't think much about this countermeasure.

So, as he called the general, the bridges around the flagship that were responsible for the order were scattered, calling out the commander's combat intent to the ships. The drums of war rumbled, and more than 100 warships, the building ships with the strongest ability to resist attacks, were in front and behind, and rushed towards the Notre Dame East Sea Fleet in a dense array.

On the high platform of the Virgin Mary of Nuwa, the flagship of the East China Sea Fleet, the cloak behind Tai Shici made a fierce sound in the river breeze, and the hat tassel on his head flew in the wind, like a raging fire.

He held up his binoculars to watch every move of the Jiangdong warship, and when he saw that the other side was vainly trying to cover in a dense formation and launch a siege on the East China Sea Fleet, his face showed a look of contempt. "Han Dang prides himself on having a lot of experience in water warfare, but now it seems that this is no more than that."

The deputy general Man Chong corrected Tai Shici with a smile and said, "It's not that Han Dang is not good at water warfare, it's just that his set of things is outdated." ”

"That's right!" Tai Shi Ci looked up to the sky and laughed, "It's been the sixteenth year of Du Shengyuan, and he still plays this outdated crowd strategy. Today, let's let him see what is called the new type of naval battle in the Holy Yuan Era. Pass my command, and the warship will drop anchor. Our Lady of Nuwa, St. The Jinan, Donglai and all the treasure ships turned around, and the thunderbolts and artillery were freely aimed at the enemy ships, and the gunpowder was filled. The building boat thunderbolt is prepared as above, and the crossbow is wound. There must be no mistakes in the fast execution. ”

The flag-bearer standing on the lookout got the general, the blue flag in his left hand and the red flag in his right hand waved at high speed, passing Tai Shici's generals to his warships in the form of flags.

As a result, a bewildering scene emerged in front of Han Dang's eyes, and the enemy ship, which was expected to take advantage of its size, suddenly stopped, and not only did it stop, but also turned the strongest bow to the side, crossed in the center of the river, and faced the most vulnerable side chord to itself.

"What are they trying to do?"

Just when Han Dang was puzzled, in his line of sight, the two thunderbolts on the deck and roof of the big ship turned around, and the levers were perpendicular to the hull.

"Watch out for the hand melon!" As soon as Han Dang's warning sounded, he saw that the sidestrings of the twelve enemy ships suddenly opened a series of window-like holes. Dark holes appeared abruptly in the hull, densely packed like bees' nests, and there were no more than forty holes on one side of the ship.

The thick hollow copper pipes revealed their hideous appearance from the holes, and although Han Dang did not know its purpose, he invisibly felt a huge threat. "Command the three armies, advance at full speed. Hurry up and stick to the enemy ship. ”

Before Han Dang's order could be spread throughout the army, he saw the red order flag on the largest warship among the enemy ships suddenly waved.

Then...... Beams of blinding light came out of the hollow brass pipes, smoke rose, and under the effect of the huge recoil, the huge enemy ship could not help but shake for several times.

The speed of light was faster than the speed of sound, and the sound of a violent explosion on the opposite side reached Han Dang. Then, a large piece of baggage-like things flew into the sky and fell overwhelmingly in the direction of the Jiangdong Navy.

"What is this?" The Jiangdong sailors didn't know why, and they looked at the things in the sky from far and near.

......A cloth bag happened to land on the deck of a building ship, and at the next moment of landing, it exploded. Splashing sawdust all over the sky, more than a dozen Jiangdong sailors were blurred by the bombing, and fell into the vast river like rag bags. In the first half of the building boat, which is more than ten zhang long, there is a large hole nearly a zhang wide, and the river water is poured into the boat. Under the violent shock, nearly 100 people fell into the river at the first time of the explosion, waved their hands and fluttered twice, and were dragged to the bottom of the river by the heavy armor. The remaining nearly 200 men nestled in the stern of the ship, watching as the ship sank with its butt up and head down at breakneck speed.

There were forty earthen cannons on the left and right sides of a treasure ship, and twelve treasure ships were bombarded in one round, blasting out 480 explosives packs, of which only about 20 fell on the enemy ship, but the damage caused was amazing. The huge ship was bombarded by explosives packets, and a raging fire broke out, and the icy river water poured into the ship along the holes and cracks that had been cracked by the explosion.

Although the rest of the explosive packs failed to directly hit the enemy ship, after the explosion in the river, it also set off a violent storm in the Jiangdong military formation, and the storms were terrifying one after another, and nearly 100 small Jiangdong warships were overturned by the giant Lang. Under the action of huge water pressure, the bilges of many medium-sized ships such as Jiangdong Tuqi and Gate ships broke down, and the river water burst into the bilge.

For a while, the Jiangdong soldiers who fell into the water were everywhere, like dumplings, and the crying and shouting resounded in the sky.

As the most senior general in the Jiangdong Naval Division, Han Dang did not panic in such an unfavorable situation, on the contrary, his wisdom and energy reached an unprecedented concentration. It occurred to him that anything powerful in the world has potential weaknesses, just like a poisonous snake with seven inches. The same is true of the giant ship and the fierce earth cannon in front of him.

The earthen cannon has a long range, at least one hundred and twenty paces, which means that it will be useless scrap metal in close combat. In addition, it has been a while since the first round of shelling of the giant ship, and there is no obvious indication that the second round is about to be ejected, which means that each of the opponent's ejections requires a lot of preparation time. And the gap in the middle just provided ample opportunities for the Jiangdong Navy to charge.

Thinking of this, Han Dang decisively ordered the remaining warships to disperse, form a loose array to avoid enemy shelling, and advance at full speed.

However, to Han Dang's surprise, as he said, the process of filling ammunition for the artillery on the treasure ship is complicated, and it needs to go through multiple links such as adding leads, filling gunpowder, and loading the gun chamber, which does take a long time. But don't forget, the treasure ship has artillery on more than one side.

At the same time that the Jiangdong Army was catching up at full speed, the twelve treasure ships began to quickly spin in place, rotated 180 degrees to turn the port side to the east side, and turned the right chord of the sampan against the attacking enemy ship formation.

"Put!" The red flag was lowered, and another round of overwhelming bombardment.

This time, due to the sparse formation of the Jiangdong Navy Army, the results were not as rich as just now. Only a few of the boats caught fire, but they did not capsize, and more than a dozen boats disappeared on the river, and more than 1,800 people died at the bottom of the river.

However, although the killing and wounding were not satisfactory, after two rounds of shelling, the shock to the hearts of the Jiangdong soldiers was unprecedented.

In previous wars, warships were the shelter of sailors, and the larger the ship, the safer it was. Hiding under the female wall of the building boat, you can block the enemy's arrows and killing, and only close combat and fighting each other is where you lose your life.

However, today's war has completely upended what they have learned over the years. Far from being a refuge, warships have largely become funeral coffins, and the larger the target, the more vulnerable and dangerous it becomes.

Several explosive packets fell, and they were all sent into the river, regardless of whether you were a building boat or a boat.

Looking at the blood-red river and the severed limbs floating on the river, the Jiangdong soldiers felt fear from the bottom of their hearts. And this fear grows stronger the closer you get to the enemy ship.

Finally resisting two rounds of shelling, the only remaining 32 building ships and more than 100 small boats of various colors of the Jiangdong Navy rushed to the river 80 paces away from the treasure ship.

Han Dang was about to arrange for the archers to shoot back, but he learned from the adjutant general that the enemy general was too high out of the water, and at this distance, even if the arrows shot hit the deck of the enemy ship, they would be the last of the crossbow. For now, it would take at least twenty more steps closer to start firing effectively.

As soon as Han Dang nodded and agreed to the vice general's suggestion, he saw that in the dark hollow on the side of the treasure ship opposite, those round and rumbling copper pipes slowly retreated to the rear, and sharp crossbow arrows emerged from the firing hole.

Although Han Dang has never seen this thing, he has heard people mention that it is the Zhuge Repeater of the Holy Mother Sect that showed its might in the battle of Qiang Dao.

"Watch out for enemy arrows!"

As soon as the words fell, the sound of strings was like a locust crossing the border, and the "buzzing" was extremely harsh.

Twelve treasure ships, each equipped with forty repeaters on one side, adding up to four hundred and eighty units, plus thirty sea navigation ships, four repeating crossbows on each building ship, just enough for six hundred. Each repeater can fire twelve arrows in a quarter of a pillar of incense, for a total of 7,200 arrows. Removing the faulty Kak in the middle, there are also more than 7,000.

A few breaths of wind were wound, followed by a second seven thousand. The arrows fired were urgent and dense, and it was simply the machine gun of the cold weapon era that only two rounds of arrow firing achieved the effect of "straw boats borrowing arrows", and the Jiangdong warships were full of arrows.

Four rounds of arrows struck down, and the battleship was full of dead corpses of Jiangdong soldiers who had been shot into a hornet's nest, and blood was overflowing and scattered on the deck.

The Jiangdong naval army suffered heavy losses.